Fifty Mission Cap

Work continues on the install of the Buffalo Sabres 40th Anniversary Exhibit (see info below). The OtherWisz Creative team spend the third day on site finishing installing photos (while wearing gloves) in the second case. We also mounted the large wooden logo (from the Aud Club), we installed the really cool puck tower (commemorating Hasek's 70-save game in 1994), built the 500-puck stack and put in the helmet mounts.

Internally we are finishing up editing content and planning the rest of the install. The case maufacturers are killing our schedule as they built the glass for the cases at the wrong size and it had to be redone. They are ruining my fine-tuned install schedule and we all have to keep altering our plans.... but we are adapting.









ALL ABOUT THE EXHIBIT: Come see the full exhibit commemorating 40 years of cool Buffalo Sabres hockey moments based on items from the Buffalo Hockey Experience + Museum's permanent collection. It all goes on display at HSBC Arena for the first pre-season Sabres game and will be up all season, 2nd floor, on either side of the big center bar overlooking the entrance. To find out more, stay tuned!

The Model

Work continues on the install of the Buffalo Sabres 40th Anniversary Exhibit (see info below). The OtherWisz Creative team spend two days of display set-up including: Step 1- the "massing". This was getting the risers and the mannequins set up to see how the space will be filled. We put all the jerseys (except for the rare Horton jersey which still in storage) on them to see how great they will look.

Then next came Step 2: outlining all memorabilia location with masking tape and putting in the mounted photography. We had to quit early today, but we'll be back at it on Monday with plans to get everything in by next Thursday. Hopefully... we still have a lot to do, but it is looking really great so far.

Here are some snapshots from the last few days including J. holding Ryan Miller's Winter Classic mask, some masking tape layout and some hockey jerseys getting mannequin-ed.

ALL ABOUT THE EXHIBIT: Come see the full exhibit commemorating 40 years of cool Buffalo Sabres hockey moments based on items from the Buffalo Hockey Experience + Museum's permanent collection. It all goes on display at HSBC Arena for the first pre-season Sabres game and will be up all season, 2nd floor, on either side of the big center bar overlooking the entrance. To find out more, stay tuned!

Tower of Power

For the Sabres 40th Anniversary Exhibit (see below), to compliment some of the awesome memorabilia from the BHEM collection, we created some pucktacular pieces to represent some of Buffalo's hockey milestones. Here is a sneak-peak: a little item I refer to as HASEK'S TOWER.

This stack of 70 pucks are speared on a steel stand we had custom built. It was designed by our OtherWisz team, welded and 'pucks a-drilled' in Holland, NY and it was delivered today! This display item (shown here, not in the display case yet) will be a part of a Dominik Hasek section at the start of the second case. This cool tower-o-pucks was designed specifically to commemorate a legendary 70-save game starring the Dominator.

The game is told as... On April 27, 1994 in the Memorial Auditorium, the Sabres were playing in the 6th game of their first round playoff series versus the New Jersey Devils. Ending at 1:52 AM the next morning, the game went into 4 overtime periods as both Hasek and Devil Brodeur dueled to the finish. Dave Hannah scored on Buffalo's 50th shot to win the game 1-0. Hasek ended up making 70 saves in a single game, 39 in the overtime periods alone. Last season (2009-10) THE average shots per NHL game was only 31.something-something... Fantastic Sabres moment remembered in a cool stack of pucks.

ALL ABOUT THE EXHIBIT: Come see the full exhibit commemorating 40 years of cool Buffalo Sabres hockey moments based on items from the Buffalo Hockey Experience + Museum's permanent collection. It all goes on display at HSBC Arena for the first pre-season Sabres game and will be up all season, 2nd floor, on either side of the big center bar overlooking the entrance. To find out more, stay tuned!