‘“The process, it was different,” Bates said Monday after practice at St. John Fisher University. “It was my first time going through something like that. Being a restricted free agent, I didn’t really have much of a decision. Didn’t really have much control of the situation. The only thing I could control is accepting or not accepting any offer sheet that was sent toward me. I kind of had the mindset where it was just whatever happened, happened. I didn’t really stress about it because, why stress about something that’s out of your control?”’