Yesterday the upcoming Seattle NHL team officially announced their new nickname. The Kraken will take the ice for the 2021-22 season when they kick the Arizona Coyotes out of the Pacific Division and move them to the Central.
Kraken had been on the shortlist of rumored nicknames for a while now. Despite that, I am not sure how many people seriously thought that the team would go with that nickname. The Vegas Golden Knights showed that an expansion team, or any team really, doesn’t need to act like a traditional NHL team, and naming your team Kraken is far from traditional.