‘As far as how he got the black eye, rumors were all over Buffalo that Derek Roy punched a drunk Connolly. Both Roy and Lindy Ruff have said that didn’t happen. Connolly said, “I was backstage learning a dance move and I just slipped, that was it. It was just an accidental thing, it wasn’t Royzy punching me in the face, I don’t know where that came out, but those things can snowball.”‘