{"id":39511,"date":"2025-08-02T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39511\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T07:58:08","slug":"krakens-buoy-john-hayden-interrupted-by-bear-during-filming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39511\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken&#8217;s Buoy, John Hayden interrupted by bear during filming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/84419578007-mighty-ducks-stars-reunite-for-anaheim-ducks-draft-pick-thumb-1.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mighty Ducks stars reunite for Anaheim Ducks draft pick<\/p>\n<p>The Anaheim Ducks reunited &#8220;Mighty Duck&#8221; actors Joshua Jackson (Charlie Conway) and Marguerite Moreau (Connie Moreau) to make their NHL Draft pick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/seattle-kraken\/41971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Seattle Kraken<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/john-hayden\/743247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">John Hayden<\/a> and team mascot Buoy were being filmed in nature during an annual event in Alaska when nature decided to interrupt.<\/p>\n<p>Video posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SEAbuoy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">social media feed of Buoy<\/a>, a troll, showed that a large bear appeared on the shoreline near Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park and began approaching, causing everyone to scatter.<\/p>\n<p>The bear can be heard growling, and at one point charges toward the mascot before turning around. Bears are known sometimes to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2023\/07\/10\/what-to-do-see-bear-stay-safe-grizzly-attack\/70389571007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">bluff charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>True to the mascot code, Buoy makes no sound while wading quickly away from the animal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to blame it on Buoy,&#8221; said Hayden, who re-signed for two years with the Kraken in May. &#8220;They were pretty interested in his whole look. We got out of it OK, but it was a close call.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TROLL NARROWLY ESCAPES BEAR ENCOUNTER\ud83e\udd2f\ud83e\uddcc\ud83d\udc3b<\/p>\n<p>*no trolls or bears were hurt in the making, always respect wildlife in their natural habitat \ud83e\ude76 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WBvw9RFkS0\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/WBvw9RFkS0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Buoy (@SEAbuoy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEAbuoy\/status\/1950981195208204387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hayden was fly fishing as part of an annual Bristol Bay Native Corp partnership trip with the Kraken. It includes \u201cKraken Week\u201d at a hockey camp hosted by Anchorage Hockey Academy, an outdoor excursion (where the bear encounter occurred) and a community event, a &#8220;Skate with Buoy&#8221; at a local mall rink.<\/p>\n<p>This story has been updated to add new information.<\/p>\n<p>The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news \u2014 fast. <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1el9h6z4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mighty Ducks stars reunite for Anaheim Ducks draft pick The Anaheim Ducks reunited &#8220;Mighty Duck&#8221; actors Joshua Jackson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[16016,64,63,3915,35151,621,637,324,44,575,323,335,128,5142,3066,85,635,338],"class_list":["post-39511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alaska","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-hockey","tag-kraken","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-science","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}