New Seattle NHL Team - The Kraken

TheKraken

It's fitting that I just moved from here 8 months ago and they make their new team name The Kraken! Gotta say it's a cool name, but awful logo. I mean come on, you can't think of anything better than a S with a red dot! Anyways, the pillows up there will probably continue to cancel culture when they realize Greg Hardy was nicknamed The Kraken...should be fun to watch

Wylaff

I don't think that's a horrible logo. It looks better the longer you look at it.

CharlieHeis

I'm guessing that's the logo you'll see on a hat, not the one that's on the jersey. It's all right.

Poopy_Jones

Looks like the red dot is the eye of the Kraken and the body is shaped like an “S”. Kinda cool

TheKraken

To each their own. Just looks like the Mariner's S redone to me

0patience

@TheKraken said:
To each their own. Just looks like the Mariner's S redone to me

And what else can you do with an "S"?
Make it a Superman S?
And if that's their colors, then yes, it will look like a Mariner's S.
Make it pink. Then it will reflect the times of Seattle.

CharlieHeis

Much better name than the Washington Football Team.

TheKraken

@0patience said:

@TheKraken said:
To each their own. Just looks like the Mariner's S redone to me

And what else can you do with an "S"?
Make it a Superman S?
And if that's their colors, then yes, it will look like a Mariner's S.
Make it pink. Then it will reflect the times of Seattle.

Thought they could have done an angry looking kraken or octopus or something.
Can't make it pink though, that promotes whiteness

0patience

@TheKraken said:

@0patience said:

@TheKraken said:
To each their own. Just looks like the Mariner's S redone to me

And what else can you do with an "S"?
Make it a Superman S?
And if that's their colors, then yes, it will look like a Mariner's S.
Make it pink. Then it will reflect the times of Seattle.

Thought they could have done an angry looking kraken or octopus or something.
Can't make it pink though, that promotes whiteness

A lot of graphics artists tend to want to keep clean lines for print/ cut or silk screening purposes and tend to want 5 colors or less, for those reasons.
Being a pro team, you would think costs wouldn't come into play, but when you are making 20,000 shirts, each color and the more intricate designs cost more to prep and print. So if they are saving $1 per item simplifying the logo, they save a bunch of money over time.

I agree, it could be better.

peter4jc

Guess it's time to hit the google. I don't even know WTF a kraken is.

Yakster

ShawnOL

Release the Kraken!

johnnyB

The S is a through back to the Seattle metropolitans.
Who were the first North American team to win Lord Stanley's Cup in 1917. About a year before the NHL started.

TheKraken

@johnnyB had no idea Seattle had an old team

johnnyB

It was a little before my time. But Lord's Stanley's Cup has an interesting history

0patience

Seattle also had the Seattle Ironmen until 1952
Both teams were part of the Pacific Coast Hockey League and wasn't actually part of the NHL, as it was considered a division.
The Western Hockey League and NHL were competing against each other, then the Prairie Hockey League and slowly all the smaller leagues were phased out until the 70s.. Then the World Hockey Association came along and the NHL almost lost a lot of key players to the WHA.

Before the mid 80s, the hockey leagues were chaotic and unless you were following closely, it was hard to tell who was in the running for the Stanley Cup.

We went to game 3 of the 1970 Stanley Cup playoffs at the Boston Gardens with Boston vs St. Louis. Phil Esposito and Bobby Orr were something to watch as a young kid.

CalvinAndHobo

I just realized you could call the fans krakheads and now I’m all in on the name.

MrShrek

I was really hoping for

CAcigarguy007

Release the Karen's!

Makes you wonder if the NHL is going to pull a Vegas and "install" an advantaged team from the gate.

J/K but seriously, GO SHARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CAcigarguy007

@peter4jc said:
Guess it's time to hit the google. I don't even know WTF a kraken is.

It's an affordable rum but I much prefer Sailor Jerry.

It's also, a legendary cephalopod-like sea monster of gigantic size in Scandinavian folklore. According to the Norse sagas, the kraken dwells off the coasts of Norway and Greenland and terrorizes nearby sailors.

It's also been known to mean "a dope party" or "a happening fucntion" by the newskewl kids or those that are spelling challanged. (ie; This party is cracking/kraken)

Now, apparently, it's also a NHL team expansion for the west.

ShawnOL

Since we're talking about a Seattle team, they should just call them the Seattle Sissies.

Patrickbrick

Can't wait until those fucktards burn down the stadium and blame a lack of diversity in the sport.

TheKraken

@CAcigarguy007 said:

@peter4jc said:
Guess it's time to hit the google. I don't even know WTF a kraken is.

It's an affordable rum but I much prefer Sailor Jerry.

It's also, a legendary cephalopod-like sea monster of gigantic size in Scandinavian folklore. According to the Norse sagas, the kraken dwells off the coasts of Norway and Greenland and terrorizes nearby sailors.

It's also been known to mean "a dope party" or "a happening fucntion" by the newskewl kids or those that are spelling challanged. (ie; This party is cracking/kraken)

Now, apparently, it's also a NHL team expansion for the west.

"This party is kraken" hahahaha

YankeeMan

Does that make the arena the Krak House?

Itsfine

@CAcigarguy007 said:

@peter4jc said:
Guess it's time to hit the google. I don't even know WTF a kraken is.

It's an affordable rum but I much prefer Sailor Jerry.

It's also, a legendary cephalopod-like sea monster of gigantic size in Scandinavian folklore. According to the Norse sagas, the kraken dwells off the coasts of Norway and Greenland and terrorizes nearby sailors.

It's also been known to mean "a dope party" or "a happening fucntion" by the newskewl kids or those that are spelling challanged. (ie; This party is cracking/kraken)

Now, apparently, it's also a NHL team expansion for the west.

It's also the first ingredient in a lunch dish