‘“To be honest with you, I realized pretty quickly after the season,” recalled Okposo regarding his decision to pursue an extended future with the Sabres. “I took the couple weeks and just allowed to let myself decompress and emotionally reset, and I talked to the people that are around me in the inner circle, and I knew that my teammates would like me back, and that was definitely a factor. But just sitting down with my wife Danielle and just figuring out what the next step would look like, and it became pretty evident in those conversations that I wanted to play and that I was going to come back.”’