Talk:Seattle Kraken/Archive 1

Name of Team
I have never seen an announcement of the team name. Why does this article calim the name is Sockeyes? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.98.179.190 (talk) 01:52, 21 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Reverted. - BilCat (talk) 02:07, 21 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Just looked at the page history and Random IP editors keep putting the "Kraken" name. Y'all do realize that it's just a report and not formally announced by the team. Including that the organization tweeted out that rumor earlier today. TheBigMan720 (talk) 03:50, 30 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Some people will never understand why Wikipedia doesn't report rumors, and they end up proving why it's a good policy. - BilCat (talk) 04:24, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

1976 Expansion
There never was a true expansion team in 1976. At the time the NHL had a system in principle to add two new teams every two years to combat the rival WHA but the influx of terrible teams in both leagues cause many franchises to continuously move year after year. The NHL had awarded a tenative franchise June 1974 but this was quickly revoked in 1975. Vince Abby went to sue the NHL over the mess; they lost the lawsuit and ended up paying the Canucks $600,000 in damages. (And in same year the Denver expansion franchise ceased to be as both a WHA team and an existing NHL team relocated to Denver).Kav2001c (talk) 00:01, 11 July 2020 (UTC)kav2001c


 * Located another (better) source re the 1976 "expansion". According to sources the 2 teams in 1976 were supposed to be relocations of existing franchises. California Golden Seals to Denver and Pittsburgh Penguins to Seattle. Kav2001c (talk) 23:28, 8 February 2021 (UTC)kav2001c
 * Fandom is a wiki like Wikipedia so it is not a valid source as anyone can edit it. -DJSasso (talk) 12:08, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Singular/plural verbage
The first sentence of the article states "The Seattle Kraken are a professional ice hockey expansion team that will be based in Seattle, and will begin play in the 2021–22 National Hockey League (NHL) season." However, both "Kraken" and "team" are singular nouns. Should this be "is" instead, or is there a particular convention for verbs with team names? --ThornyIgloo (talk) 17:46, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
 * A team is a group of people, so it should be plural. See also: Colorado Avalanche, for instance. Jmj713 (talk) 17:50, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I see what you are saying, but in Colorado Avalanche I also notice the following sentence: "As a result, they are the only active NHL team that has won all of its Stanley Cup Final appearances." In this case, team is being treated as singular.  In addition, take for example Southeastern Conference: "The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States."  Despite a conference being a group of people, it is used in the singular, as there can be multiple conferences just as there can be multiple teams.  Also, as I think on this more I recall the verb should usually agree with the subject rather than the object.  In this case, "Seattle Kraken" is a single entity, as is "Colorado Avalanche".  Given the way team is used on other pages, there does seem to be disagreement between articles. --ThornyIgloo (talk) 19:34, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Jmj713 is correct, this is actually an WP:ENGVAR issue, in North America using are to refer to the team is correct because a singular group of individual items is considered plural (ie a team). But as you say in some contexts, like the one you quote, it is not uncommon to use its as though it is referring to a singular. Your conference example however, is more complicated as it would be considered a singular piece of a whole league for example. -DJSasso (talk) 20:51, 23 July 2020 (UTC)


 * It's actually even more complicated than that! In American English, we generally say "The Seahawks are..." but "Seattle is..." (when referring to the team) and "The team is...". So by convention, the team name is generally treated as a plural, even if it is a singular form, such as Miami Heat, Minnesota Wild, etc. Whether or not singular pronouns are used does depend on the context and antecedents. We might use "they" for the team when referring to the players, but "it" when referring to the organization. And even then, not all Americans will agree on which to use when. Canadian usage is generally similar. - BilCat (talk) 21:06, 23 July 2020 (UTC)


 * I see! This does appear to be the case.  The 2008 AP Style Guide says: "Team names and band names, however, take plural verbs."  Thanks for the clarification. --ThornyIgloo (talk) 21:49, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Clash of the Titans
This is kinda random, though obviously good context for "Release the Kraken" used by the team, but I don't recall the 1981 original film actually popularizing that phrase in pop culture. It came from that scene with Liam Neeson in the remake I'm pretty sure, which is what the cited source says, too. Am I wrong or misremembering? Jmj713 (talk) 02:38, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
 * In the 1981 movie, Laurence Olivier (Zeus) answers Maggie Smith (Thetis)' request with - "Very well then. Release the Kraken." GoodDay (talk) 15:07, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I know but what I’m saying is that I believe that phrase became a meme because of the remake, not the original. Jmj713 (talk) 16:51, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Seemingly so, for what it's worth.   Ravenswing     19:49, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Release the Kraken was famous from original movie. The re-release was 2010. There are tons of verifiable sources on internet pre-2010. Most obvious examples being a song with same title (Clutch Jam Room) and even a Robot Chicken sequence (which is an obvious parody of Original 1981 version based on costume and character design). There also was a commercial for the movie that had it. But I will argue the meme came about because of the Robot Chicken parody, which was released a full year before the remake (presumably because they knew at the time it was relevant with pending release of 2010 version). Kav2001c (talk) 01:55, 18 December 2020 (UTC)kav2001c

Uniform image
Why did you replace File:The uniforms of the NHL expansion team Seattle Kraken.png with File:WCP-Uniform-SEA.png? It looks like the latter just adds extra whitespace around it. Jackmcbarn (talk) 03:39, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

I was initially trying to rename the file Rickyharder (talk) 14:46, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Officialness of Davy Jones as team dog
User:Mikeblas added a citation-needed tag on the sentence "Davy Jones is the official team dog of the Kraken." The nearest source is this article from KING 5 News, a reliable source: https://www.king5.com/article/sports/nhl/kraken/meet-davy-jones-the-seattle-kraken-team-dog/281-29d9bec5-749c-4c91-8828-4b5ec71bea25.

The citation-needed tag was reinserted with the edit summary, "the referenced article wasn't written or published by The Team, and therefore isn't "official"; a reference directly from the team would be necessary to substantiate this claim". There is a reference directly from the team embedded in the KING 5 News report linked above. After the second paragraph is an embedded tweet from the Seattle Kraken's official account, bearing a Twitter verified checkmark icon. The first sentence of it reads, "INTRODUCING THE GOODEST OF BOYS & THE FIRST-EVER TEAM DOG OF THE #SEAKRAKEN - DAVY JONES!"

Because the official team account tweeted that Davy Jones is the team dog, and that tweet is included in the KING 5 News article already cited, I believe that the KING 5 News article substantiates that Davy Jones is the official team dog of the Kraken. White 720 (talk) 01:50, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Perhaps the real problem here is "official". The article uses the word "official" to describe the goal horn, the organist, the dog, and the team's ordinal membership in the NHL. (Are we remembering to count teams that left, like the Nordiques and Whalers?) The use of the word in each of these situations is pretty dubious, not much better than meaningless, as in "watermellon is the official fruit of summer!"
 * If the team directly acknowledges the dog as "official", they should write something that says so -- using the word "official" and that reference should be directly and cited.
 * Meanwhile, I've removed the usage of "official" in the article because it's superfluous. -- Mikeblas (talk) 04:09, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I cited a tweet by the official team's official Twitter account with an official verified badge, and that's still not enough to make Davy Jones the official team dog? By contrast, neither the official web sites of summer nor watermelon acknowledge an official relationship between the season and the fruit. I thought we were here to build an encyclopedia based on verifiable information from reliable sources. Harumph. White 720 (talk) 04:15, 4 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Oh for pity's sake. We are ALSO here to build an encyclopedia based on non-trivial facts.  Do we also mention the "official" opening faceoff sponsored by that casino, on the broadcasts?  Do we also mention the team's "official" bus company, or their "official" men's wear store, or all the other "officials" engendered by their advertising department?  Do we name every member of their front office, who after all are "official" employees of the team?  No we do not.  The identity of the alleged "team dog" is the same level of non-encyclopedic trivia.   Ravenswing      12:52, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Did you know that Davy Jones, the official team dog of the Kraken, is sponsored by Canidae® dog food? There are multiple reliable sources that say so, so we can verify it. I appreciate that you've felt inclined to talk about it, but at Wikipedia, the world's best encyclopedia, we encourage people to be bold and just put all that information in. Just nestle it on in there so that everyone, no matter how plinche, can enjoy it. Thank you again. White 720 (talk) 13:17, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I also found two beautiful reliable sources to verify that Kraken Rum is the official rum of the Seattle Kraken professional men's ice hockey squadron:  White 720 (talk) 13:57, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry -- what does "plinche" mean? Meanwhile, I was bold: I didn't understand what an "official team dog" is and the references given didn't help, nor did they substantiate the "official" claim. The heading of this section is "mascot", but the dog isn't a mascot -- nothing like Gritty or Fin or Mick E. Moose or NJ Devil. I'm mostly with -- that this section is just Marketing Crap® and too trivial. Since you think the section can't possibly be improved, maybe it should just be removed altogether. -- Mikeblas (talk) 14:07, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * We at Wikipedia have a search engine that can provide more context about team dogs. For example, Hank is named by a reliable source as the Milwaukee Brewers' team dog and is named in the lead section as an "unofficial mascot". The section about Davy Jones, official team dog of the Kraken, already has six reliable and verifiable sources. I notice that Ravenswing has been bold and deleted it, but I'm going to revert their revert and reïnstate the section. Please remain civil as we continue this prolonged debate about the merits of including a section on the Kraken's official team dog in an article about the Seattle Kraken. Thank you. White 720 (talk) 14:18, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * And I'm likewise removing it until you've gained consensus for the addition. So far that has not been done.   Ravenswing      00:05, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I am disappointed by the removal of this well-sourced information about the team's officially-announced unofficial mascot and I would prefer that it be included in this article. Thank you for your kind consideration. White 720 (talk) 02:19, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * After reviewing the information here and what was used before it was removed from the article, I have to agree with Ravenswing that this is just trivial information that should be excluded. Deadman137 (talk) 02:51, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm against including it; it's just too promotional, and I'm not swayed by the WP:OTHERCONTENT argument. -- Mikeblas (talk) 03:02, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I understand. Seeing that the consensus is to exclude this information, I accept its exclusion. Thank you for your time. White 720 (talk) 13:26, 5 May 2022 (UTC)