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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, 05:08 PM   #501
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at least Kraken isnt offensive, i wouldnt think. wont have to change it to appease some snowflakes
Culturally appropriating the helenic greek?
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Old 07-23-2020, 05:15 PM   #502
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Awesome name, awesome jersey, and Vancouver can finally stop pretending we’re their #1 rival.

Great day for hockey.
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Old 07-23-2020, 05:16 PM   #503
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Culturally appropriating the helenic greek?
Scandinavian.
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Old 07-23-2020, 05:22 PM   #504
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Scandinavian.
Kinda thought I had it wrong, but couldn't get wrath of the titans out of my head.
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Old 07-23-2020, 05:31 PM   #505
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I bet there will be some sweet goalie masks in Seattle
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Old 07-23-2020, 05:46 PM   #506
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I'd argue avalanches are pretty tangible, as you can have multiple avalanches. But Colorado players have never been called Avalanches, just Avs. I'm guessing we call them Kraks eventually.
That would make their arena the "Krak Shack".
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Old 07-23-2020, 05:51 PM   #507
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Another example would be the AHL's Manitoba Moose.


*I guess the province of Manitoba likes to pick odd plurals.*


I think Edmonton would go with "Elks" because it's kind of close to "Esks" ???
Plural of Moose is Meese. We have been over this
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Old 07-23-2020, 05:58 PM   #508
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I like these jerseys. Well done.
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Old 07-23-2020, 06:19 PM   #509
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The problem with Sockeyes is that it doesn’t roll off the tongue very well. Or worse yet, they try to shorten it to something like the “Socks”. It would only be a slight upgrade on the nearby (and now defunct) Victoria Salmon Kings.
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Old 07-23-2020, 06:44 PM   #510
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I prefer the Sockeyes, but the Kraken would have been my second choice. I just think having bad ass fish on their jersey would have been awesome.
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Old 07-23-2020, 06:57 PM   #511
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that would make their arena the "krak house".

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I prefer the Sockeyes, but the Kraken would have been my second choice. I just think having bad ass fish on their jersey would have been awesome.
Are you thinking mutated sockeye? because they aren't really bad ass normally.
How about sockeye with frickin laser beams?
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Old 07-23-2020, 07:00 PM   #513
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I'm a little late to the game, and while I think most team names that don't end with an "S" sound off, I prefer the name Kraken to Sockeyes. Both sound a bit amateur though.


Logo looks really solid. Colours look good too, but I'm not a fan of the busyness of the sleeves. Look at the arm from the tip of the hand to the shoulder: thick dark blue - thin red line - thin dark blue - medium baby blue - thick sky blue - dark blue. 6 BLOCKS ON JUST ONE ARM! Sometimes the simple scheme works best, so I don't know why the NHL allows teams to bastardize their uniforms with so many colour blocks. Same goes for Vegas'. It cheapens the look.
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Old 07-23-2020, 07:11 PM   #514
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AC whipped this up for me because I wanted to see what it would look like incorporating the neon green some of the other Seattle teams use.



I think it might actually be a bit of an improvement on the red.

Thanks AC!

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Old 07-23-2020, 07:13 PM   #515
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I'm a little late to the game, and while I think most team names that don't end with an "S" sound off, I prefer the name Kraken to Sockeyes. Both sound a bit amateur though.


Logo looks really solid. Colours look good too, but I'm not a fan of the busyness of the sleeves. Look at the arm from the tip of the hand to the shoulder: thick dark blue - thin red line - thin dark blue - medium baby blue - thick sky blue - dark blue. 6 BLOCKS ON JUST ONE ARM! Sometimes the simple scheme works best, so I don't know why the NHL allows teams to bastardize their uniforms with so many colour blocks. Same goes for Vegas'. It cheapens the look.
Weird take. Vegas has five blocks on their sleeve, a lot of other teams have five as well. Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston, and Winnipeg (to name just a few) have 8 or 9 blocks on their sleeves depending on whether you look at their home or away jerseys.

Other teams with four colours on their sleeves: St.Louis, Columbus, San Jose, Vegas (off the top of my head, maybe more?)

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Old 07-23-2020, 07:19 PM   #516
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Can you explain? Salmon have been immensely important to the local economy and culture for thousands of years.
Sure. It is a delicious fish. A low on the food chain treat.

I don’t think many sports teams are named after things you enjoy feasting upon.

Oh. Now that I see whose post I am responding to, I realize need to be careful.

I think I know the answer, but are you a superhero with some kind of fish powers?
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Old 07-23-2020, 07:24 PM   #517
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The best jerseys the Flames ever wore (2004 reds) go red, black, white, yellow, black on the sleeves. When you put it that way, I guess it's busy... but IMO it doesn't look busy at all.
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Old 07-23-2020, 07:33 PM   #518
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Weird take. Vegas has five blocks on their sleeve, a lot of other teams have five as well. Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston, and Winnipeg (to name just a few) have 8 or 9 blocks on their sleeves depending on whether you look at their home or away jerseys.

Other teams with four colours on their sleeves: St.Louis, Columbus, San Jose, Vegas (off the top of my head, maybe more?)



Yeah, you could be right - I didn't think too deeply about it but it could be the combination of number of colours and size of blocks combined with non-symmetry. Personally, I like the clean look like this:


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Old 07-23-2020, 07:35 PM   #519
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I preferred the Iced Lattes.

I’m only half kidding.
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Maybe it's just me but I think that "clean look" is dreadfully bland.
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