{"id":133375,"date":"2025-08-10T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133375\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:34:09","slug":"ahls-hershey-bears-masterfully-troll-seattle-kraken-mascot-over-bear-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133375\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL\u2019s Hershey Bears Masterfully Troll Seattle Kraken Mascot Over Bear Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masterful trolling&#8230; of a literal troll.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>August 9, 2025 3:14 PM EDT\u2022<strong>Updated<\/strong>August 9, 2025 3:14 PM EDT<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"fb\">Facebook<\/li>\n<li class=\"tw\">Twitter<\/li>\n<li class=\"email\">Email<\/li>\n<li class=\"link\">Copy Link<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">One of my favorite stories of the last few weeks has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/seattle-kraken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Seattle Kraken<\/a> mascot, Buoy, getting charged by a bear while fly-fishing with center John Hayden in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Why? Because just look at that sentence and imagine trying to explain this to someone who had no clue what you were talking about, and the questions that would follow:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">&#8220;Why was the Seattle mascot in Alaska?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">&#8220;Why was a mascot fly-fishing in bear country?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">&#8220;Why does a team called the \u2018Kraken\u2019 have a mascot that&#8217;s a troll. Shouldn&#8217;t it be some kind of squid or other cephalopod?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Fortunately, no one was hurt, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/seattle-kraken-staffer-talks-about-moment-bear-charged-teams-mascot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">those who were there<\/a> were laughing about the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">To the team&#8217;s credit, they have leaned into the virality of the moment, and on Friday, Buoy&#8217;s X account requested that people give the movement the bear started barreling toward the mascot the meme treatment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The best one of these came courtesy of the American Hockey League&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/hershey-bears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hershey Bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">You might have an idea of where this is headed just from the Chocolatetown, USA-based team and Washington Capitals affiliate&#8217;s name. Still, I don&#8217;t think I saw the Bears changing their profile picture to the most-famous mascot-chasing bear in hockey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">That&#8217;s hilarious. I grew up going to Bears games and played hockey for the Hershey Jr. Bears house league for most of my childhood, so to say I felt a sense of pride in this meme is an understatement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I love this kind of stuff, especially in the summer between the Draft and development camp and then the start of regular training camp. I have no clue how social media teams are supposed to make that work, so I&#8217;m sure they were all popping champagne when another team&#8217;s mascot got chased by a bear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Heck, this worked so well, that I wouldn&#8217;t be shocked if we saw mascots across hockey getting chased by dangerous animals just so there&#8217;s stuff to tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Masterful trolling&#8230; of a literal troll. 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