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View Poll Results: How do you feel about the NHL team name "Seattle Kraken"?
Love it 262 50.58%
Hate it 97 18.73%
Indifferent 159 30.69%
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Old 07-23-2020, 10:56 AM   #421
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Not a huge fan of the name, but it's not my team so I don't care. Sockeyes would have been cool.

Despite the logo and jersey being really sharp, I'm mostly surprised they didn't go with a green theme since all pro sports in Seattle are green and they are literally known as the Emerald City. Huge miss IMO.
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Old 07-23-2020, 11:00 AM   #422
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I'm legitimately wondering if they'll go with Cthulu as a mascot. Or Zoidberg, maybe.



Either way, a squid-head would be a great mascot concept, so long as you could keep it from terrifying children.
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Old 07-23-2020, 11:01 AM   #423
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Not a huge fan of the name, but it's not my team so I don't care. Sockeyes would have been cool.

Despite the logo and jersey being really sharp, I'm mostly surprised they didn't go with a green theme since all pro sports in Seattle are green and they are literally known as the Emerald City. Huge miss IMO.

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I thought they should've raided MLB's past and called them the Pilots.
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Old 07-23-2020, 11:02 AM   #425
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^^ Can you not put tags on those??
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Old 07-23-2020, 11:04 AM   #427
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is there an actual logo or just a big "S" which is more of a shoulder patch?
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Old 07-23-2020, 11:06 AM   #428
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They all at least have green trim, and all-green alternates.

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Old 07-23-2020, 11:06 AM   #429
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I think they've done a great job. I have a buddy who lives in Seattle who is from New Orleans, no hockey backgroud of any kind but he's super excited by their packaging to date- they are on the right track
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Old 07-23-2020, 11:07 AM   #430
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Love the name and logo. Jersey colour and design is decent
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Old 07-23-2020, 11:08 AM   #431
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Not going to lie, this gave me a pretty good chuckle.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1286336580827848704
To nobody's surprise, their social media/online branding game is solid.
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Not a huge fan of the name, but it's not my team so I don't care. Sockeyes would have been cool.

Despite the logo and jersey being really sharp, I'm mostly surprised they didn't go with a green theme since all pro sports in Seattle are green and they are literally known as the Emerald City. Huge miss IMO.
The Mariners and Seahawks are both blue teams.
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Old 07-23-2020, 11:10 AM   #433
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per icethetics

Those are good looking Jerseys,

The Logo being a sea horse type creature, made of tentacles, and and S all at once is fantastic.

My only change would have been a neon green eye and pin stripe instead of the red to keep in theme with the rest of Seattle teams.
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Old 07-23-2020, 11:11 AM   #434
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They all at least have green trim, and all-green alternates.

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The darker teal stripe on the Kraken jersey is almost the same colour as that Mariners jersey to my eye. Also, the Kraken don't have any alt jerseys yet, where they could really lean into the greener colours like teal and turquoise if they wanted to.


Also, they have to tread carefully, so they don't look like the Canucks or Sharks

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Old 07-23-2020, 11:11 AM   #435
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I'm guessing Vancouver may have had something to say about another team a few hours down the road using green and blue as their primary team colours.
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Is that a red eye? On the tentacle?
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I would be pretty surprised if the Kraken don't opt for green as the colour of their alternate jersey when the time comes.
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The darker teal stripe on the Kraken jersey is almost the same colour as that Mariners jersey to my eye. Also, the Kraken don't have any alt jerseys yet, where they could really lean into the greener colours like teal and turquoise if they wanted to
Green is also a colour of their chief rival.

If they went with their blue-grey scheme and then did green too they would be way too similar to vancouver. The red gives a good differentiation point and changes the overall pallet.
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Old 07-23-2020, 11:15 AM   #439
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Yasssss!

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Team name, logo, and colors are sharp, interesting, and a hot conversation piece. Couldn't ask for a better reveal.

What I really like is the colors. The dark theme invokes an ominous, deep sea feel where opponents come into "uncharted waters" and can expect the unexpected. Love it.
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