‘“There was literally nothing we could have done differently. We never turned any teams away,” he said Tuesday prior to the pre-season game between the Leafs and Sabres. “We never laughed at any offers, it wasn’t anything like that, it was just the way the summer went. We were open-eared to everything that came in and just with the way things wound down and who teams wanted, it just played out longer, and I was very fortunate to come here to Buffalo.”’