We have Good Mascot Privilege™.
Sharkie is fine. Maybe great, even! He’s a normal-enough-looking Shark, who gives Brent Burns weirdly intimate hugs and bangs a drum in the crowd at games. It’s easy to take this good fish boy for granted, but sometimes we need to take a moment to sit down and really appreciate how lucky we are to have a mascot that isn’t completely and utterly nightmare-inducing.
Sorry, Philadelphia.
The Flyers have gone this long without a mascot. And somehow, I feel like a hairy orange dude is a pretty apt description of more than a few of their players, so maybe they’re onto something with this guy.