By CEDAR ATTANASIO
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Kraken ahead John Hayden and the crew’s blue-haired troll mascot had an in depth name with a brown bear throughout a promotional video shoot in Alaska.
Hayden and the mascot named Buoy have been on a fly-fishing outing in Katmai Nationwide Park as a part of a visit selling youth hockey when the bear approached, video launched by the crew reveals.
Knee-deep in a shallow river, they wore waders and different fly-fishing gear. Hayden had been fishing, however a information rapidly took the rod from him.
The bear charged towards the mascot, splashing water, however turned away earlier than making contact as Hayden, Buoy and the movie crew waded again to shore by a mild present.
Brown bears generally feast on salmon within the Brooks River in Katmai Nationwide Park, gobbling them as they leap upstream over Brooks Falls to spawn. The park, practically 300 miles southwest of Anchorage and inaccessible by highway, is house to the annual “Fat Bear Week” contest celebrating the bears as they fatten up for the winter.
The NHL crew stated it didn’t intend to contain the bear in filming, however included it in a video posted to social media. Organizers had employed guides for security.
“Bears are in every single place at Brooks Falls and, like, that is their territory,” stated Kraken Partnership Advertising Director Melissa O’Brochta, who additionally recorded the encounter from shore. “They’re additionally tremendous used to seeing people. So I wasn’t scared.”
A troll may need been a unique story.
“I need to blame it on Buoy,” Hayden stated on the video afterward. “They have been fairly thinking about his look.”
The run-in occurred on June 25 as a part of an annual journey organized by the Bristol Bay Native Company in Anchorage, Alaska, with occasions that promote youth ice hockey. Alaska doesn’t have its personal NHL crew; the closest groups are in Seattle and Vancouver, Canada.
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