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I dont even watch hockey but Im tickled witless over Seattles name choice for its new hockey team. Its too bad people dont appreciate the PNWs quirks more. Its 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
(23,357 posts)nolabear
(41,999 posts)MontanaMama
(23,357 posts)I think kids will love it...and face it, when kids want swag, we buy it for them. Great marketing!
Siwsan
(26,308 posts)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
(100,108 posts)Though it's finally good to see something good happening for a change!
nolabear
(41,999 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
catsudon
(855 posts)and fantastic logo....
even if I don't watch hockey
jrandom421
(1,005 posts)Are they going to be called "Krakers"?
Are they going to cheer "Release the Krakan!"?
catsudon
(855 posts)fans will yell release the kracken at every game
nolabear
(41,999 posts)HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)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
(2,558 posts)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 isnt running me off so much as the relocation away from Seattle last winter.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)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
(41,999 posts)BBG
(2,558 posts)Before they flew the coop to Kent.
nolabear
(41,999 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,467 posts)Silent3
(15,379 posts)catsudon
(855 posts)either Greek style or Chinese style
Initech
(100,108 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)Too bad the NBA fucked up and couldn't leave Seattle fast enough in spite of a 40 year history there.
nolabear
(41,999 posts)I actually like Basketball and we went to many games. People still wear Sonics gear.
ornotna
(10,807 posts)Give a nod to the Tamps Bay Lightning in the video.
Congrats Seattle, welcome to the family.
johnp3907
(3,733 posts)Going into game 4 down 3 - 0, Seattle Crackin!
Baclava
(12,047 posts)nolabear
(41,999 posts)There are giant octopus in the area and in the old days people were convinced theyd seen Kraken.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I think that it may be one of the most Swedish areas in the country.