Name of Seattle's expansion team reportedly leaked; team responds

We'll let you decide what you think of this one. Reports are circulating on the internet that the name has been chosen for the NHL expansion team coming to Seattle. It all stems from an appearance by John Hoven of mayorsmanor.com, who joined SXM NHL Network Radio and reported that the name will be the Seattle Kraken.

Here's what Hoven had to say:

From everything that I've heard, it looks like Seattle Kraken is going to be the name. Which is quite surprising, actually, when I was given that information just a couple of days ago. I was a little bit in shock personally, just because we had been told several times previously that that was not the name that they were going for. It looked like they were leaning toward Sockeyes. And then now, I guess it's come out that that was a name that's been used in a book by an author. Maybe it was a fantasy novel, I'm not exactly sure, I haven't done the research on what the book series was about. But it's been out there I guess now for about five years or so.

“I do just want to say, in one of these situations like this, I'm always a little reluctant if there's somebody trying to do the ultimate swerve and misleak information,” Hoven said. “I was told by a source that's very connected to the situation that it is the Kraken. I believe that it's the Kraken. But save your tweets if they end up doing a giant swerve on everybody and going with something completely different like the Totems, or the Seattle Swarm, or whatever one of the million other names are out there.”

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