Release the Kraken: Seattle Unveils Name for NHL Franchise

Seattle (AP) -- The name Seattle Kraken seems to have had an air of inevitability around it even during the earliest days of the NHL expansion franchise.

“The first time in our office, there’s only 10 of us in our office, and we put up our NHL Seattle sign on the front door. And the very next morning there was a Post-it on the door that said, ‘Release the Kraken,’” Heidi Dettmer, the franchise's vice president of marketing, told The Associated Press. “So it’s definitely something that we’ve heard almost as a rallying cry.”