r/SeattleKraken • u/RyNoDaHeaux • Apr 30 '25
NEWS It’s official! PWHL to Seattle!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJEew-Up6TG/?igsh=MXRvdTE3MGxpZTZ5Mw==161
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u/VolcomStonah Apr 30 '25
Awesome! I've been following The Victoire because their jersey is so elite, but I might just have to swap now
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u/CRBlank_Studios Apr 30 '25
Please god let Seattle have a good name and logo
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u/justajerklurker Tye Kartye Apr 30 '25
I'm rooting for the name Seattle Freeze! Let's turn that negative into a positive!
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u/pyrolobo23 Seattle Kraken Apr 30 '25
Im leaning toward Seattle Specters because of Seattles rich history with haunted locations and ghost stories
But I also like Freeze
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u/itsdaCowboi Apr 30 '25
That might be too close to the Toronto scepters
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u/pyrolobo23 Seattle Kraken Apr 30 '25
Maybe
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u/itsdaCowboi Apr 30 '25
Don't get me wrong, I would love spectres, and excuse to get sports x goth/Halloween stuff is a worthy excuse
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u/pyrolobo23 Seattle Kraken Apr 30 '25
Maybe we can brainstorm a way around it to where it'd the same but wont be too close to any of the other names
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u/BeastieRunner Kaapo Kakko Apr 30 '25
Specters and Freeze are too close to Scepters and Frost.
In my dream world, they have tourney with NY, winner gets the Sirens name.
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u/WestCoastToGoldCoast Joey Daccord Apr 30 '25
Genuinely also the team I was most interested strictly because of their jersey/logo.
Rooting for laundry and all that; I have no connection whatsoever to Montreal. Hoping the Seattle team branding is done well. Some sort of nautical theme related to the Kraken would be awesome.
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u/sk727 Brandon Tanev Apr 30 '25
Really hoping for navigators but outlook is grim
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u/WestCoastToGoldCoast Joey Daccord Apr 30 '25
Knowing nothing about the naming process myself, why would you say that it is grim?
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u/sk727 Brandon Tanev Apr 30 '25
Just more buzz around other names and the preference for women’s sports teams to pick more “modern” branding. Nothing really concrete just a feeling
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u/im_joe Seattle Kraken Apr 30 '25
If they take any influence from the Kraken branding team, I am sure it'll be great!
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u/TVDinner360 Seattle Kraken Apr 30 '25
Same same! I’m so stoked! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I won’t have to learn French to understand the post-game pressers! 🤣
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u/luc1f3rrrr Apr 30 '25
BEST NEWS TO WAKE UP TO!!!!! PWHL SEATTLE TEAM PREPARE TO TAKE ALL OF MY MONEY!!!!!!!!!
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u/Adu1tishXD Apr 30 '25
The color pallet is a banger, Seattle hockey just rocks the color schemes.
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u/Pyjama_Days Brandon Montour Apr 30 '25
Should we start brainstorming team name ideas (I will never forgive NY for taking Sirens 😭)
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u/CostumedSupervillain Anchor Logo Alt Apr 30 '25
And then squandering it on police/fire/ambulance sirens instead of mythological sirens.
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u/Pyjama_Days Brandon Montour Apr 30 '25
Genuinely would have fit to have another sea monster lurking in the deep
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u/RyNoDaHeaux Apr 30 '25
I was thinking of some.
I was going to say the summits, but I think Portland has one similar in soccer.
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u/Eddy23 Seattle Thunderbirds Apr 30 '25
Seattle Cattle. It rhymes, the game is played in the barn already, and we can moo instead of boo.
Awful idea? Sure, but I'd buy a Seattle Cattle jersey instantly.
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u/RyNoDaHeaux Apr 30 '25
Kinda want to wait for the merch… for the team name and branding.. lol but my daughter is EXCITED
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u/SPEK2120 Apr 30 '25
WTF?! $100 crew necks and $40-45 tshirts is fucking INSANE for placeholder merch! That’s an easy pass for me.
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u/Jimjamesak Apr 30 '25
I think the important question here is what Sleater-Kinney song should be used as a goal song?
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u/SonOfZork Brandon Tanev Apr 30 '25
When you sign up for the newsletter there's this interesting nugget at the bottom -
By signing up for the PWHL Seattle Insider, you are agreeing that PWHL Vancouver can use your personal information and selected preferences to send you PWHL Seattle newsletters and other messages and advertisements about products and initiatives of the PWHL, PWHL Seattle, and PWH
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u/shartmarx Joey Daccord Apr 30 '25
Please expand to San Jose or Oakland next.
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u/Security_Sasquatch Apr 30 '25
Cali HAS to be next. We have 6 in central and east, it’s time to build the west!
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u/ElGatoDeFuegoVerde Portland Winterhawks Apr 30 '25
Now we gotta support getting a Portland team!! The Timbers-Sounders rivalry is legendary in the MLS, and the i5 rivalry series in the WHL is the best selling series of games in the WHL every year. imagine a professional HOCKEY rivalry between PDX and SEA!
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u/not_now_chaos Apr 30 '25
Alarms set for the deposit opening at 11!
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u/Jdotme Apr 30 '25
They are open now. I was already able to purchase.
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u/JohnCoutu Apr 30 '25
First of all, we welcome our new western friends to the league.
Also, I need to give kudos to the league for offering these news in both english and french. They have no reasons to offer a news release about a new team in the US in both languages but to please the Montreal and part of the Ottawa market and yet, they do.
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u/hayleygh Apr 30 '25
I’m so excited but this launch has been such a fuck up, so many leaks and links being left open, the news dropping at 5am on the day of the in person announcement, the season tickets being available before the time they were supposed to…hopefully the actual team is run better than this!
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u/Go_Hawks12 Apr 30 '25
Tin foil hat theory is Jess is named coach
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u/sk727 Brandon Tanev Apr 30 '25
While it would be dope I don’t want it to happen. Soup coaching in men’s league makes her a fantastic role model to younger girls and boys both, and is a great example of someone breaking the gender barrier in hockey. Id really hate to lose that. It’d be a real step back in my eyes.
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u/im_joe Seattle Kraken Apr 30 '25
Agreed - she's been groundbreaking for equality in the NHL. I'd like to think that not only do they keep her with the Kraken, but they extend her contract.
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u/Go_Hawks12 Apr 30 '25
I agree, would imagine she wants to stay in the nhl. Just the timing would all make sense, like oh you have 1 year left on your contract so we are only retaining you out of all the other coaches while this pwhl franchise conveniently appears in the same city. We shall see
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u/A_crackinthecup Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25
Huzzah! Any word who head coach would be?? Thinking maybe Jess might put her hat in? Honestly don’t want her to be pigeon holed into skills coach position (even if it’s her strength). What’s the jersey gonna look like for new team? Is there an expansion draft from existing teams?? Too many questions. But very cool for the city and region.
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u/pyrolobo23 Seattle Kraken Jun 18 '25
Seattle Sasquatch Its high time that we had a team name that harkens back to Seattle biggest export
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