‘During the 2019 preseason, Granato, then a Sabres assistant, felt under the weather and eventually wound up at Buffalo General Hospital, where it was discovered that a bacterial infection had entered his bloodstream, leading to pneumonia and, subsequently, respiratory failure. When doctors raced into his room at one point to put him under, “the doctor said to me, ‘Listen you’ve got about five minutes and you will not be here anymore. We need to do this to you right now.'”‘