‘“I always just kept the faith,” he told The Buffalo News on Tuesday ahead of the Sabres’ game against the Seattle Kraken in Climate Pledge Arena. “I talked to Donny a few times during that span, and kind of just had to let things play out, wait to see what happened. That whole time, I was training to be a Buffalo Sabre and getting ready for the season. If something else happened, then it would, but I think, in the back of my mind, I always had faith and knew I was going to be back here.”’