to help it would mean a lot to bulldog and it would mean a hell of a lot to me man it really helps me and people who know ryan if you can help honor his memory because i know it was some would be something that he was all right so we're talking about your heart you know being in this to do this what about the rest of you um writing like this i don't i know i again i know i can't do it um Are you going to be physically up to do it?

Yeah, we're going to ride it.

It's 45 miles, and I don't ride every year.

This is the longest ride I'll ride all year.

I don't go out.

I used to, before I even started doing the ride, go on Saturday morning rides out to the escarpment in Niagara County and whatever.

But I ride all winter in my basement on a trainer.

What will be their plan to replace them? Do you count? Do you count on Hellenist and Oslin? Do you think those guys are ready to take that big of a jump? They thought about that a couple years ago and they almost made

I mean, what do you attribute that to beyond the GM change, and how likely is it this Sabres team can actually keep it going through the rest of the regular season?

I mean, there are, there are things that have happened outside of the GM change.

Um, you know, they, they've got a kid line now.

We'll see how long it lasts 'cause they've had some tough moments in their own zone.

Um, but Benson, who's been around for this is his third full season now, um, but he's still only 21.

Uh, O- Aslin, who showed up right around the time the streak got going, the win streak, the 10-game win streak that started this run that they're on.

Um, and now lately Konsta H- Heleniús has shown up, and he's-- There's just a lot of talent there, a lot of skill, and Ruff seems to trust them.

How do you think that would go over in Bill's Mafia?

What has been the kind of reaction to the to the Bills season this year in Buffalo?

I think a lot of us, this definitely is the case for me, and I think a lot of people I know and have heard from, we weren't emotionally prepared for the Patriots to be a problem so soon.

I mean, you know, I guess, and it's not that it was so soon.

It took them five years post-Brady to find their way to Drake May.

It's just that when, you know, we were in the dumps and they were ruling the roost, it seemed like 20 years.

It was 17 or 18 years of just looking up at them.

And so I was prepared.

It feels like this is very much a year where you've got to take advantage of the landscape surrounding you despite all the problems the Bills have had this year.