Pyatt has said that he carries her memory on the ice with him every night “Every time I go out on the ice, that’s who I’m playing for.”

Coyotes GM Don Maloney, the only GM to offer Pyatt a contract in the summer of 2009 said “When he’s focused, he’s an unstoppable force.”

James Duthie has an excellent article about the situation at TSN.

Pyatt was teammates with Marty Biron in Buffalo and the organization knows him and his family from Gordie Clark’s time with the Islanders (where Pyatt was drafted) and from his younger brother Tom who was a Rangers draft pick.