No city in professional sports is more more skilled at welcoming new coaches and GMs into their family than my hometown. In part, this is because Buffalonians are a highly hospitable people. You say your car is stuck in a blizzard and you have no way to get home? Come on in and warm up until the plows can clear the streets. Can I get you some coffee? A beer?
The ability to welcome strangers into our community may be injected into the bloodstream of Buffalonians at birth, but there is a sad and slightly disconcerting aspect to all the generosity we extend to Jason Botterill, Phil Housley, and all those who came before them.