‘Face-to-face, Wieland is a great story-teller, which is to be expected from the man who hired Rick Jeanneret, invented a fictitious Sabres’ draftee named Taro Tsujimoto, once served as the team’s backup goalie and convinced some members of the Buffalo sports media, on an April Fool’s Day, that a synthetic ice surface called Silderex would be installed in the Aud. And that’s what makes the book compelling … so many of the vignettes are first-person.’