LEWISTON, N.Y. (WBEN) – For the past eight years, Lewiston craftsman Dan Buttery has been creating signs and other special items for the Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n
But, when he got a call from the team on March 30, it was for something he never could have imagined.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Buttery was commissioned to make a ceremonial Stanley Cup puck holder that now graces the Sabres’ KeyBank Center locker room, but is also mobile enough to travel with the team on the round.<\/p>\n
From the time of the initial call, Buttery had less than three weeks to design and create the puck holder.<\/p>\n
“I was doing that while I was doing a lot of other things,” Buttery said. “But, because it was for the Sabres’ players, I knew it had to be something special.”<\/p>\n
The Sabres’ inspiration came from a similar Stanley Cup puck holder the Florida Panthers used last season en route to their second, consecutive NHL championship.<\/p>\n
“I wanted to create something unique to Buffalo,.” Buttery said.<\/p>\n
What he created was a 3-D circular piece with a Stanley Cup and two swords in the center surrounded by a gold circle with 16 puck holders – one for each victory needed to win the Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n
The entire puck holder was designed and created well before the first Sabres’ p,layoff game on April 19.<\/p>\n
“I wasn’t going to let the team down,”<\/p>\n
The puck holder is made from pieces of welded steel, some wood and aluminum. It is 32 inches in diameter and weighs under 20 pounds.<\/p>\n
Weight was a factor because not only does the puck holder hang in the Sabres’ locker room, it is designed to sit on a locker room table when the Sabres are on the road. Yes, it travels with the team.<\/p>\n
“That makes it even more special,”: said Buttery, a life-long Sabres’ fan.<\/p>\n
Buttery has yet to meet Lindy Ruff or the Sabres’ players – he is saving that moment for when “not if, we win the Cup.”<\/p>\n
“I feel honored to have created something that will always be part of Sabres’ history,” Buttery said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEWISTON, N.Y. (WBEN) – For the past eight years, Lewiston craftsman Dan Buttery has been creating signs and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[60627,1107,229,5133,5,997,4,1108,63196],"class_list":["post-560709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-buffalo-sabres","tag-all-local","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-buffalosabres","tag-hockey","tag-local-news","tag-nhl","tag-sabres","tag-wben"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116475903560816964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}