It's a little better than that. Some decent restaurants downtown. But yes, no young athlete is going to live there. Besides, considering weather, you need to be close to whatever rink you are skating in.
Batavia is a town almost exactly halfway between Buffalo and Rochester. But as @Taro T says, no young player would want to live there. It's a dull, small town.
Just got to the hotel because I got a flat after the game. (Another long sad miserable story that goes with that. I won't get into it.)
I give the Flyers credit for attacking the Sabres. It looked like they must have seen something in our game film and the found a way to block our break outs while pressuring us in our own end. Aside from the Sabres looking tentative, we were so out of sync, players were "surprised" when they got the puck a few times. (I saw Bryson's body language in the 3rd when Tuch was forced to abort a neutral zone entry and dropped a pass back to 78. A split second of WTF. Maybe he was heading for the bench when that happened.)