page_title: List of NHL mascots
section_title: Sabretooth
hierarchical_section_title: List of NHL mascots / Current mascots / Sabretooth
caption_attribution_description: English: Buffalo Sabres mascot "Sabretooth" entertains the crowd during a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins at First Niagara Center in Buffalo, NY, February 19, 2012.
context_page_description: This is a list of current and former National Hockey League mascots, sorted alphabetically. The New York Rangers are the only team to have never had a mascot.
context_section_description: Sabretooth is the mascot of the Buffalo Sabres. He is ostensibly a sabre-toothed tiger. From 1992 to 1998, he was also the mascot of the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League. He has a house in KeyBank Center. Before games, he rappels from the ceiling to the ice while rock music plays, and has also been known to ride a four-wheeler on the ice while followed by a spotlight. He has a T-shirt bazooka, which he uses to shoot shirts into the crowd, and plays Sabres chants on a drum. Sabretooth has a gold body with blue stripes, wearing a Sabres jersey; when the Sabres wore the John Rigas-era red and black uniforms, Sabretooth's main color was correspondingly red with black stripes. Sabretooth's autograph can be obtained on the mezzanine level of KeyBank Center within his custom built playhouse. Buffalo Sabres PR Director Paul Wieland and Sabre employee Budd Bailey originally came up with the idea for Sabretooth in the mid-to-late 1980s in an effort to spur fan interest and replicate what the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons baseball team had done with their mascot Buster Bison. Team owners the Knox Family had suggested a mascot of their own and Wieland and Bailey obliged with Sabretooth.
caption: Sabretooth (Buffalo Sabres)
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