{"id":14219,"date":"2020-07-24T05:44:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T02:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/seattle-announces-new-nhl-team-name-the-seattle-kraken\/14219\/"},"modified":"2020-07-24T05:44:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T02:44:27","slug":"seattle-announces-new-nhl-team-name-the-seattle-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/seattle-announces-new-nhl-team-name-the-seattle-kraken\/14219\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Announces New NHL Team Name\u2026 The Seattle Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m telling you right now I\u2019m already a fan of the Seattle Kraken. I don\u2019t care what anyone says.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In case you somehow missed it, the name of the NHL\u2019s 32nd hockey team was announced by the club this morning. Already, it\u2019s getting some flak online, as can always be expected. But with a teaser like that, how could any sea-lover not be pumped up for the 2021 season?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Just check out the jersey:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"01531a481fec5731e029c14d-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It also looks like they may have a taken a little tip from ol\u2019 gCaptain too with the anchor.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"01531a481fec5731e029c14d-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The name obviously is a continuation Seattle\u2019s modern tradition of naming its professional sport\u2019s teams in honor of the city\u2019s salty heritage (e.g. \u201cMariners\u201d, \u201cSeahawks\u201d, \u201cSounders\u201d FC), and according to the team\u2019s website the name was created and chosen with the help of some 32,000 fans.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Fun fact\u2026 In 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans became the first American hockey team to win the Stanley Cup, beating the Montreal Canadians by 3 to 1 games.<\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m telling you right now I\u2019m already a fan of the Seattle Kraken. I don\u2019t care what anyone says. In case you somehow missed it, the name of the NHL\u2019s 32nd hockey team was announced by the club this morning. Already, it\u2019s getting some flak online, as can always be expected. But with a teaser &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[2184,9329,9328,1285,1364],"class_list":["post-14219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-announces","tag-kraken","tag-nhl","tag-seattle","tag-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/14220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}