Unleash the Kraken

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Don't love the name- it's generic pop culture ocean reference and not all that tied to Seattle- but love the sweater.
 

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Don't love the name- it's generic pop culture ocean and not all that tied to Seattle- but love the sweater.
It is widely known that the Kraken bathes in the Pudget Sound. And what is wrong with a generic name? It's cool and not offensive and awesome. Release the Kraken!
 

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It is widely known that the Kraken bathes in the Pudget Sound. And what is wrong with a generic name? It's cool and not offensive and awesome. Release the Kraken!
I was a Sockeye supporter. I can live with Kraken, though, over some of the other trash I heard tossed out.

The ferry horn is great. I live right across from the terminal (I can see the ferry from my bed) and they get very blatty if I try and go to bed at a decent hour.
 

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Sockeyes would have been terrible, sorry.
Like, so terrible.

"Oh you're a hockey fan? Who's your team."
"The...Soc....uh, Seattle."

"HERE WE GO SOCKEYES HERE WE GO :resigned clapping"

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YOUUUUURRRRRRR SOCKEYES!!!!!"

It sounds like a euphamism for your butthole.
 

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God damn that's a sharp jersey. I love everything about it. I hope they draft as well as Vegas did (albeit by accident).
 

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I was a Sockeye supporter. I can live with Kraken, though, over some of the other trash I heard tossed out.

The ferry horn is great. I live right across from the terminal (I can see the ferry from my bed) and they get very blatty if I try and go to bed at a decent hour.
Sockeyes would be a debacle.

The last NFL to get a new name named themselves the Texas Texans. The last baseball team to pick a name is the Washington Nationals. Talk about boring.

They just named a team THE KRAKEN. It's amazing.
 

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How is this development not its own thread? It's like you people hate life or something.
The name and uniforms of a franchise that we've known will be joining the NHL for months and months now has been released -- I imagine this will get a fair amount of activity over the next several hours and then die on the vine.
 

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Like, so terrible.

"Oh you're a hockey fan? Who's your team."
"The...Soc....uh, Seattle."

"HERE WE GO SOCKEYES HERE WE GO :resigned clapping"

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YOUUUUURRRRRRR SOCKEYES!!!!!"

It sounds like a euphamism for your butthole.
Besides, nicknames shouldn't reference hockey fights
 

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Yeah, that's pretty sweet all around. I'll probably buy a hat. This was well done and @slidingsideways pointed out that the logo passes the "can a child draw it" test which is a great way of thinking about logos. Who among us didn't draw various logos on our homemade brown paper bag book covers in school?

I imagine they'll sell lots of logo merch with a dark red eye that lights up
 

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That said Key Arena "Climate Pledge Arena" will definitely be colloquially called the Krakhouse.
 

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That said Key Arena "Climate Pledge Arena" will definitely be colloquially called the Krakhouse.
I'm surprised that's taken this long to make it into the thread, since it's been all over Twitter for an hour or so
 

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Sockeyes would be a debacle.

The last NFL to get a new name named themselves the Texas Texans. The last baseball team to pick a name is the Washington Nationals. Talk about boring.

They just named a team THE KRAKEN. It's amazing.
Yeah, and I hate the trend of naming teams after non-physical objects, like Orlando Magic, Miami Heat, OKC Thunder, basically every WNBA franchise, etc. Seattle Krakens is amazing is great; unique but not too strange. Sweet logo and color scheme, it is pretty much perfect.
 

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Great name, solid logo. Hope the mascot is equally good. As mentioned in the ESPN piece on picking the name, while it wasn't universally the favorite it had the most enthusiasm both in the market and out. Not many people outside western WA would give enough of a shit about the Seattle team to buy a sweater, but people are going to buy Kraken gear just because it's Kraken gear.

i don't buy the "no connection" complaint. I may have had more contact with chain-smoking, alcoholic Norwegian American fishermen than other locals, but Kraken jokes/sea tales weren't unusual in Seattle Maritime circles. If Jersey can cheer for Devils and Vegas has Golden Knights, let Seattle release the Kraken.
 

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That said Key Arena "Climate Pledge Arena" will definitely be colloquially called the Krakhouse.
Are they playing at the old Key Arena? Unless it has been renovated substantially, and I am hoping it has been renovated, that would be terrible. It has the same problem the Barclay's Center had for the Islanders. The rink doesn't fit in the seating bowl.