‘“Ralph has been a good partner of mine and somebody I consider a mentor honestly with the bandwidth of his experience,” he said. “He’s been in a lot of places and done a lot of things over the course of his career and accomplished a lot so I try and stay in touch with him. I encourage him. I’m not sure I’ve shared much that he can use, but he certainly share some things that I’ve been able to use and I think it’s really neat to watch the Sabres players and our players support one another and that’s as they say, ‘One Buffalo.’ That’s a unique and cool part about our city.”’