Reuben Pastor, along with brothers Abraham & Samuel, operated Buffalo’s Pepsi bottling plant. they were known as Ruby, Sam and Al Pastor.

They purchased the Buffalo Hockey Club / Buffalo Bisons from the NHL Chicago Black Hawks for an estimated $125,000 in July, 1956.

The Pastors changed the Bisons logo to a bottle cap featuring Pepsi-styled fonts. The brothers owned the Bisons for fourteen seasons, and under their ownership the Bisons improved dramatically. Many future NHL stars were brought to Buffalo, and in 1960, 1964 and 1970 the Bisons won the Calder Cup.

The Pastors sold the Bisons to make way for the NHL’s expansion Buffalo Sabres franchise in 1970.

The Black Hawks had only owned the Bisons team for one season 1955-56, purchasing the team from founder Louis M. Jacobs in 1955. Jacobs had started the Bisons franchise in 1940.