Mass. native Jack Eichel bringing Stanley Cup back to his childhood rink

Over two decades ago, Jack Eichel first laced up his ice skates at Skate 3 in Tyngsboro. Later this month, the Vegas Golden Knights forward will stop by his childhood rink, Stanley Cup in tow.

The North Chelmsford native will appear at Skate 3 on July 14 from 10 a.m. to noon, just over a month since Eichel’s playoff-leading 26 points culminated in Vegas’ 9-3 blitzing of the Florida Panthers to clinch the cup.

Bob Eichel, Jack’s father, told The Boston Herald’s and The Lowell Sun’s Barry Scanlon that it was important for his son to bring the cup back to the rink where his hockey journey began.

“It’s where he grew up skating. He still skates there,” Bob Eichel said. “He played in a lot of hockey games there.”

Eichel first took the ice at Skate 3 for his fourth birthday, just a few miles away from his childhood home in North Chelmsford, according to the Lowell Sun. Eichel stuck around Massachusetts for a brief but prolific collegiate career at Boston University. Eichel became just the second of three freshmen to win the Hobey Baker award as college hockey’s top skater and guided the Terriers to a berth in the Hockey East title game. The 2nd overall pick in the 2015 NHL Draft, Eichel spent six years with the Buffalo Sabres before a trade saw him shipped to Vegas.

Bob Eichel told Scanlon the owner of Skate 3, Tim Madden, has become close friends with the family.

“He’s been great to Jack. He never asks Jack for anything,” he told Scanlon.

Vegas head coach Bruce Cassidy will also take the Cup on a day trip to the Bay State. Cassidy and The Cup will help launch The Cassidy Murray Foundation in Milton, named in honor of one of his daughter’s friends who tragically died in Aruba when she struck the boat pulling her and her father on a water tube.

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