{"id":359973,"date":"2021-10-22T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitseattlep.kinsta.cloud\/?page_id=359973"},"modified":"2022-11-22T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:28:46","slug":"meet-the-kraken","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visitseattle.org\/things-to-do\/spectator-sports\/meet-the-kraken\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_360087\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360087\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-360087\" src=\"https:\/\/uploads.visitseattle.org\/2021\/10\/26095405\/GettyImages-1329947505-Kraken-side-cut-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uploads.visitseattle.org\/2021\/10\/26095405\/GettyImages-1329947505-Kraken-side-cut-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uploads.visitseattle.org\/2021\/10\/26095405\/GettyImages-1329947505-Kraken-side-cut-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uploads.visitseattle.org\/2021\/10\/26095405\/GettyImages-1329947505-Kraken-side-cut-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/uploads.visitseattle.org\/2021\/10\/26095405\/GettyImages-1329947505-Kraken-side-cut-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/uploads.visitseattle.org\/2021\/10\/26095405\/GettyImages-1329947505-Kraken-side-cut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-360087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alika Jenner\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>In the summer of 2020, the Seattle Kraken released a promotional video featuring gray-scale roiling seas, mountain peaks, and the city skyline, with its eponymous mascot\u2014a tentacled sea monster\u2014an unseen, looming presence.<\/h2>\n<p>The Kraken\u2019s maritime origin story is inspired by the very real Giant Pacific octopus found in Puget Sound\u2014local legend has it that a 600-pound creature lurks amid the ruins of the collapsed Tacoma Narrows bridge. Seattle\u2019s first major-league hockey team since 1975 had a devoted fan base long before its official launch. The franchise broke records in 2018 for deposits on season tickets made in a single day, and two years later, with 215,000 votes, the Kraken officially became a team name born of the fans. The signature ice-blue \u201cS\u201d (a nod to the Seattle Metropolitans, the city\u2019s original professional hockey team) began to crop up across the city and beyond\u2014this past summer, the team\u2019s flag flew atop both Mount Rainier and Mount Everest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2020, the Seattle Kraken released a promotional video featuring gray-scale roiling seas, mountain peaks, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":360087,"parent":223763,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-359973","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meet the Kraken - Visit Seattle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An introduction to Seattle&#039;s new NHL team, how we got here, and how to join in on the excitement. 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