Welcome to 32 Thoughts, The Interview, special midweek podcast, because before the Buffalo Sabres, 7-4 win over the Maple Leafs on Tuesday, we had a chance to sit down with Buffalo's Josh Donne, son of longtime NHLer Shane Donne, but Josh is well on his way to carving out his own story.

Original draft pick of the Arizona Coyotes.

He was traded to the Sabres last June as part of the J.J. Paterka deal,

and he, along with Michael Kesslering, have been more than fair value since arriving in western New York.

Now, Kevin Adams was the GM that

made the deal. He felt that if Donne was given more opportunity, he was going to produce more

offensively. Of course, he's not the GM in Buffalo anymore, but to this point, it appears that

Kevin was bang on. Now, Donne is fresh off signing a seven-year extension last week.

Scored a 16th of the year last night and as part of a Sabres team that has been the best in the league since early December.

We hope you enjoy our conversation with Josh Dohn on 32 Thoughts, the podcast.

Josh Done, welcome to 32 Thoughts, first of all.

Appreciate you joining us.

So you just signed a seven-year deal in the last week.

Your team has lost four times in the last 22 games.

You feel like you are a walking, talking existence of that,

my life is a movie meme right now.

Like, how are you feeling about everything?

Yeah, it's been a whirlwind of a couple

weeks here for us, myself included with the new deal, but everything's been great with the team

and with the group, and part of why I think the deal went so smoothly and went along so well

is because of where we're at as a team and as an organization. So let's go to trade trade. Like some guys know they're about to be traded.

And some guys have no idea they're about to be traded.

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