{"id":882366,"date":"2026-10-14T20:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882366\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T20:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:04:10","slug":"hurricanes-mascot-stormy-ruthlessly-mocks-capitals-logo-also-oink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882366\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes mascot Stormy ruthlessly mocks Capitals logo: \u2018Also, oink.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming Stanley Cup champions gives you a certain swagger, and it\u2019s fair to say <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/team\/carolina-hurricanes\/\" class=\"team\" title=\"View Carolina Hurricanes news and roster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>\u00a0mascot Stormy is feeling pretty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americastestkitchen.com\/articles\/7239-how-to-make-tiger-sauce-a-baltimore-classic-with-real-bite\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saucy<\/a> these days.<\/p>\n<p>The beefin\u2019 mascot has a bit where he holds up a piece of paper during home games at Lenovo Center with a clever, or perhaps tired, observation, trying to be a Sophisticated Pig.<\/p>\n<p>His latest jab came Frozen Frenzy Tuesday, when he shared what can only be described as a devastating diss of the Capitals\u2019 branding \u2014 a diss <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2023\/10\/19\/ryan-reaves-says-capitals-have-worst-jerseys-in-nhl-because-their-logo-is-all-lowercase-figure-that-out-please\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that is not new at all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HOT TAKE:<\/p>\n<p>THE WASHINGTON CAPITALS LOGO IS LOWERCASE.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO, OINK..<\/p>\n<p>For reference:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-575597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/file-washington-capitals-logo-crest-aland-0867.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Capitals\" width=\"1342\" height=\"894\"  \/>\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB<\/p>\n<p>Please note that the Washington part is uppercase, so technically his observation is not completely right. Stormy, you trippin\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Against the Canucks, Stormy also recently <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/riotsurvivor\/status\/2108575756179902524\" rel=\"nofollow\">held up a message of solidarity to Vancouver\u2019s working class<\/a>, going viral on Reddit.<\/p>\n<p>STORMY NOT SOPHISTICATED ICE HOG, BUT EVEN STORMY KNOW:<\/p>\n<p>THE ALLOWANCE OF FOREIGN INVESTORS IN METRO VANCOUVER MUST NOT ONLY BE MET WITH STEEP ANNUAL LEVIES IF PROPERTIES ARE LEFT UNATTENDED, ALONGSIDE BRITISH COLUMBIA\u2019S 20% FOREIGN PURCHASE SURCHARGE, BUT THE 2027 EXPIRATION OF THE FEDERAL FOREIGN BUYER BAN REPRESENTS A FLASHPOINT IN THE REAL ESTATE MARKET THAT COULD HAVE GENERATIONAL RAMIFICATIONS IF NOT REENACTED.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO, OINK.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, the message was discussed on the podcast What Chaos, which I\u2019m only sharing because I found this all very silly.<\/p>\n<p>You might ask what the point of this article is. Like, Ian, why did you write this? And there is a reason, but I can\u2019t quite put my finger on it. Maybe it\u2019s because I love the attempt at humor in a sport so scared to embrace the stupid. Or maybe it\u2019s because I just wanted to make some pit beef jokes. Or maybe it\u2019s because I really want the Capitals to see this and never lose to this team and fanbase again because they are so very, very lame.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, probably that last one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Becoming Stanley Cup champions gives you a certain swagger, and it\u2019s fair to say Carolina Hurricanes\u00a0mascot Stormy is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-882366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}