The NHL’s growth team in Seattle will be understood as the Kraken when it starts play in the 2021–2022 season with the team’s nickname as well as logo released in a splashy marketing video.
The team’s colors will be “icy blue as well as navy blue” with red accents. Of the league’s 31 present teams, 16 have some shade of blue in the logo. The team will play its games at the recently named climate Pledge Arena, the former house of the NBA’s Seattle Supersonics as well as present house of the WNBA’s Seattle Storm. The building is undergoing a $900 million renovation as well as will seat 18,100 when completed.
Andy Jassy, a part-owner of the team, told ESPN that the team looked at more than 1,200 names. The franchise settled on five finalists, which were put in a time capsule in Seattle’s area Needle as well as will be exposed in 2062 on the Needle’s 100th anniversary.
The main logo features an “S” similar to the style as well as script utilized by the Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific coastline Hockey league in the early 1900s. Jassy told ESPN that the ownership group thought about utilizing the old name however there was “reticence” from NHL commissioner Gary Bettman provided that one of the league’s divisions is named the Metropolitan Division.
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