Thanks to Sabres beat writer Bill Hoppe of the Buffalo Times Herald for this transcript. Bill gave me a heads-up about the call when I was at the gym, and when I returned to the office and got on, it was over.
Bill emailed me the following quotes from former Avalanche forward Ryan O’Reilly, the pending 2016 unrestricted free agent who, according to my source, demanded an eight-year, $64 million extension from the Avs:
Glad to be a Sabre? “It’s definitely exciting. Obviously, the team in the last few days has made steps in the right direction moving forward.