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This is Jack Eichel's first goal this season: At the time, many commented on how we didn't see that from Jack much. Really, since his first NHL game, we have been used to seeing Eichel score his goals more like this: --- Now flash forward back to this season. Almost all of Eichel's goals look like the first video I posted. Really, they are nearly all very similar. What one might term "garbage" goals. Even though they are anything but. Why is this the case though? Where are the snipes we are used to seeing? Why aren't we seeing them anymore? Jack does seem to be missing the net a lot lately... His most recent goal was from further out, but it was that drifter of a shot on a shaky Edmonton netmeinder that the goaltender very likely would have wanted back. Not to take anything away from Jack on that particular play. And he had a very similar goal against Vancouver from nearly the same place, with slightly better velocity on the shot after an admittedly nice move to get around the D-man. But by and large at least so far, 5/7 of his goals have been while standing on the doorstep. There is no "right" way to score a goal, but I'm curious as to why his goal scoring trends have changed so significantly. Thoughts? *It should be noted that the sample size is still relatively small, at least in relation to the amount of goals we are talking about (7). But we are 25 games into the season, and don't have any examples this season of a goal similar to the style of his first ever, yet. And I really don't recall many in-close goals from Jack over his first two seasons.