{"id":121792,"date":"2025-08-05T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/121792\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:34:09","slug":"video-captures-moment-seattle-kraken-mascot-is-chased-by-charging-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/121792\/","title":{"rendered":"Video captures moment Seattle Kraken mascot is chased by charging bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-3f0a03\" class=\"body-graf\">A<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskasnewssource.com\/2025\/08\/02\/seattle-mascot-goes-viral-after-surviving-bear-encounter-alaskas-katmai-national-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> bear briefly chased the masco<\/a>t for pro hockey&#8217;s Seattle Kraken in a furry faceoff before the grizzly goon let the sea troll skate away unharmed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-3e71bd\" class=\"body-graf\">Buoy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/kraken\/fans\/team-mascot-buoy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official costumed cheerleader of the NHL&#8217;s<\/a> relatively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/sports\/release-kraken-seattle-s-new-hockey-team-will-have-catchy-n1234753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new franchise<\/a> in Seattle, and Kraken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/kraken\/player\/john-hayden-8477401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">forward John Hayden<\/a> were<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SeattleKraken\/status\/1947418232832540702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> spreading their team&#8217;s good will<\/a> in Alaska and doing some fishing in Katmai National Park.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-e436a5\" class=\"body-graf\">That&#8217;s when the ferocious mammal appeared to go on the attack, forcing Buoy, Hayden and their line mates to clear the zone.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-762b02\" class=\"body-graf\">&#8220;While we were fishing we got a couple close calls with a couple of bears,&#8221; Hayden said. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-aed5f3\" class=\"body-graf\">The growling bear took several aggressive steps toward Buoy, but then dumped the chase.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-d0ddf1\" class=\"body-graf\">Hayden joked that the animal just wanted a closer look at Buoy, who was dressed in his normal game-time costume along with fisherman coveralls.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-eef392\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">&#8220;I want to blame it on Buoy. They were pretty interested in his whole look,&#8221; said Hayden. &#8220;We got out of it OK, but it was a close call.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bear briefly chased the mascot for pro hockey&#8217;s Seattle Kraken in a furry faceoff before the grizzly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-121792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}