Last night, Seattle’s NHL franchise posted this promo video for their team name reveal.
I won’t lie, with all of the fishing imagery and the sea blue and salmon color scheme on the team’s website, I was pretty sure that today’s name announcement would be the Sockeye. Sure, fish aren’t exactly intimidating, but have you ever seen a sockeye salmon? They’re one ugly cuss.
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That’s a mug made for hockey right there.
Today, the Western Conference’s newest team debuted their branding, and it wasn’t what a lot of people expected - it was what a lot of people hoped for:
A legend from the deep awakens.