Dade Hayes Finance EditorConfirming longtime speculation, Seattle has officially named its new NHL hockey team the Kraken.The name, logo and uniforms were revealed Thursday (watch a clip above, including a sizzle reel), ahead of the team’s debut in the 2021-22 season.The announcement cemented one of the most offbeat names for a team in all of professional sports.
It is a reference to a creature which had a cameo in the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans that has far outlasted memories of the film itself.
Clips of star Liam Neeson’s earnest baritone cry — “Release the kraken!” — lodged the phrase in the pop-culture vernacular even though the movie was hardly a smash, taking in $493.2 million at the global box office.
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