RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!

[nolabear]

I don’t even watch hockey but I’m tickled witless over Seattle’s name choice for its new hockey team. It’s too bad people don’t appreciate the PNW’s quirks more. It’s one of its best qualities.

I may have to buy a shirt, as soon as the website is back up. It was overwhelmed immediately.

🧜🏻?♀️🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🧜🏻?♀️

[MontanaMama]

1. I don't watch hockey either but damn!

This is kinda fun:

Link to tweet

[nolabear]

16. Right? Great opportunities for fun publicity

[MontanaMama]

24. I like the "vintage" look to the video.

I think kids will love it...and face it, when kids want swag, we buy it for them. Great marketing!

[Siwsan]

2. LOVE it!! And I don't watch Hockey, either.

Of course, the Detroit Red Wings already kind of sort of captured the whole mini-kraken thing with the octopus toss. Side note: I don't know if they still do this, but if they do, I wish they'd stop.

Since you aren't a Hockey fan, you might not be familiar with this tradition, so here's the history (from Wiki)

The Legend of the Octopus is a sports tradition during Detroit Red Wings home playoff games involving dead octopuses thrown onto the ice rink. The origins of the activity go back to the 1952 playoffs, when a National Hockey League team played two best-of-seven series to capture the Stanley Cup. Having eight arms, the octopus symbolized the number of playoff wins necessary for the Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup. The practice started April 15, 1952, when Pete and Jerry Cusimano, brothers and store owners in Detroit's Eastern Market, hurled an octopus into the rink of The Old Red Barn. The team swept the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens en route to winning the championship.[1]

Since 1952, the practice has persisted with each passing year. In one 1995 game, fans threw 36 octopuses, including a specimen weighing 38 pounds (17 kg).[2] The Red Wings' unofficial mascot is a purple octopus named Al, and during playoff runs, two of these mascots were also hung from the rafters of Joe Louis Arena, symbolizing the 16 wins now needed to take home the Stanley Cup.[3] The practice has become such an accepted part of the team's lore, fans have developed various techniques and "octopus etiquette" for launching the creatures onto the ice.[4]

[Initech]

13. Somehow I think that practice might be ending after COVID.

Though it's finally good to see something good happening for a change!

[nolabear]

18. Crazy. And yes, sad. I love octopus.

[Laelth]

3. Indeed. Release the Kraken! n/t

-Laelth

[catsudon]

4. fantastic name

and fantastic logo....

even if I don't watch hockey

[jrandom421]

5. What about the fans?

Are they going to be called "Krakers"?

Are they going to cheer "Release the Krakan!"?

[catsudon]

6. that is what they are expecting

fans will yell release the kracken at every game

[nolabear]

19. Oh I expect Krakheads from the opposition. But that's sports.

[HotTeaBag]

7. The Junior team in Seattle - The Thunderbirds

was a much better name than this, and Portland's team - The Winterhawks is even better.

The Seattle Kraken will be cool for about a week, awful name - though I'm glad Seattle has a team now.

[BBG]

10. Agreed, awful name

We have a deposit down on seasons tickets and need to get out of it now. Guess I better get crackin’ on that refund. The name isn’t running me off so much as the relocation away from Seattle last winter.

[HotTeaBag]

14. Darn, having season tickets has always been (an unattainable) dream for me, sucks that

you'll have to give them up. If I could see my Flyers play 30-40 games per year I'd be in Heaven.

'The Kraken' sounds like an East Coast Hockey League team at best or more appropriately a beer league team.

[nolabear]

20. But they're literally in the new arena in Seattle Center.

[BBG]

23. Used to have T-bird season tix

Before they flew the coop to Kent.

[nolabear]

25. Oh! I misunderstood.

[Blue_true]

28. It isn't like you have to travel an ocean to get to what is essentially a Seattle outer suburb. nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. I fucking love hockey and think it's great. Their hype video was fire.

[Silent3]

9. Only loosely related, but I couldn't help myself...

https://www.theonion.com/long-john-silver-s-introduces-new-golden-fried-abominat-1819578026

[catsudon]

17. i would eat it, looks delicious

either Greek style or Chinese style

[Initech]

11. That logo is bad ass!

Link to tweet

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. That's the name I was hoping for

Too bad the NBA fucked up and couldn't leave Seattle fast enough in spite of a 40 year history there.

[nolabear]

27. We're still in pain.

I actually like Basketball and we went to many games. People still wear Sonics gear.

[ornotna]

15. Nice to see them

Give a nod to the Tamps Bay Lightning in the video.







Congrats Seattle, welcome to the family.

[johnp3907]

21. The headlines write themselves.

“Going into game 4 down 3 - 0, Seattle “Crackin’!”

[Baclava]

22. Is Norse mythology big up there? Guess fans will be throwing squid on the ice, lol

[nolabear]

26. It actually is! Lots of Norwegian heritage plus Kraken sightings!

There are giant octopus in the area and in the old days people were convinced they’d seen Kraken.

[Blue_true]

29. Lots of Swedish, Norwegian ancestry people up there.

I think that it may be one of the most Swedish areas in the country.