{"id":46063,"date":"2025-08-05T02:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46063\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T02:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:55:14","slug":"watch-seattle-kraken-mascot-has-close-call-with-charging-brown-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46063\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Seattle Kraken mascot has close-call with charging brown bear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aug. 4 (UPI) — Members of the Seattle Kraken hockey team were fly fishing in Alaska when their mascot, Buoy the sea troll, was charged by a grizzly bear.<\/p>\n

The team shared a video to social media<\/a> showing team members and support staff fly fishing in Katmai National Park and rushing to exit the water when some nearby brown bears take an interest in the group.\n<\/p>\n

The video caught the moment a bear charged at Buoy, the team’s mascot, sending water flying but veering away before getting too close.<\/p>\n

Kraken forward John Hayden said in the video that the bears seemed particularly interested in the mascot.<\/p>\n

“I want to blame it on Buoy. They were pretty interested in his whole look. We got out of it okay, but it was a close call,” Hayden said.<\/p>\n

The team traveled to Alaska for<\/a> their annual community engagement partnership trip with the Bristol Bay Native Corporation. The annual trip included a “Kraken Week” at the Anchorage Hockey Academy’s youth hockey camp.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 4 (UPI) — Members of the Seattle Kraken hockey team were fly fishing in Alaska when their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2837,49,48,18474,32198,66,32199,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-46063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-funny","12":"tag-odd","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-weird","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}