"That situation was very stressful on everybody. I love Jack, he's a good friend of mine. And like obviously, I have a job to do and l'm a Sabres player. Jack and I have had so many conversations and we've
talked about it so much and the only person that's ever gonna be privy to those is Jack. He knows exactly how feel about him. He knows care about him and he knows do anything to help him.
It was just such a difficult situation because for whatever reason, the CBA Was written to where the team had control of the final medical thing. As a person, obviously you're not going to let anyone tell you what to do with your body, right? So it was a rock and a hard place, and I think that Pat came in Pat Brisson, who's my agent he came in, he did a great job at navigating the whole situation. Him and Kevyn worked really closely together to get that done in am amicable way. And I'm so happy that Jack ended up getting the surgery, and now he's healthy. think for our team, and the way that it affected us, Kevyn came in and was very, very honest what was going on, right off the bat. In the locker room, it didn't really affect us too much. Jack wasn't around, which sucked. It sucked not having him around, but we just were kind of focused on playing, and that's what we tried to do"
