Possible Clues:

• Player at Buffalo's First Niagara Center
• 1999 Stanley Cup finals competitor
• A squadron of ravens, say
• Buffalo player in yellow and blue
• First Niagara Center NHLer
• Sword, aggressively brandished, rattles enemy initially
• Baron's blade
• Oddly scabbarded weapon
• It's regularly scabbarded
• Cavalry sword (var.)