‘Their team has never won a Cup and made the finals only twice in 36 years of existence; their team went bankrupt; the club was rumoured to be moving; they were scorched by the Brett Hull goal seven years ago; people are still emigrating from, rather than arriving in, town; the ecoomy struggles; there are seas of obsolete factories and warehouses; and every time anyone outside of town thinks of a successful Buffalo sports franchise they think of them only in grossly negative terms, as in “Wide Right!”‘