What’s with the slug?
While the Buffalo Sabres have spent considerable time, effort and dollars promoting the team’s new, retro logo — a replica of its original crossed swords and bison emblem, the “slug” can still be found in HSBC Arena.
The blue and gold charging bison head, which many fans have called the “slug” since it was first introduced in the fall of 2006, is prominently seen, among other places, on the Jumbotron scoreboard at the center of the arena. The traditional Sabres emblem is also on the scoreboard as well as the center ice face-off circle.
When the Sabres reintroduced the retro logo earlier this fall, many assumed the “slug” would just go away. They were wrong.
When the season began and the “slug” was still seen on the scoreboard, it raised more than eyebrows.
“We never said the ‘slug’ was going to go away,” said Michael Gilbert, Sabres director of public relations. “It’s on the scoreboard and elsewhere in the arena.”
In other words, the “slug” is sticking around.


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i heard a rumor that it may become our third eventually

Well slugs don't usually move very fast, so it's not too surprising they'd stick around.

I'm thinking it would take too much time/money/effort to change the scoreboard. Plus didn't they say the current third is only for this season?