‘Simonick, whose career started in 1964 as a stickboy for the AHL’s Bisons, was hired for the Sabres by original General Manager Punch Imlach in 1970 and has worked for the team during its entire existence. A 2014 inductee of the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame, he is considered one of the franchise’s great father figures to both current and former players, and is regularly greeted by alumni who live nearby at many of the Sabres’ road stops.’