The Seattle Kraken were in Alaska fly fishing as part of a community partnership with youth hockey when this happened:
‘Every year we try to do something special and unique to Alaska,' Kraken partnership marketing director Melissa O'Brochta told KOMO News. ‘A couple years ago, we took Buoy on a little glacial helicopter ride, in the years past, we've done fishing in Anchorage. But this year, we were like, let's do fly fishing over at Brooks Falls.'
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For some reason, Kraken mascot Buoy the Sea Troll was in full uniform out in the water, and the bears seemed real curious to know what sea troll tasted like, or at least if he wanted to play.
Kraken forward John Hayden said,
I want to blame it on Buoy. They were pretty interested in his whole look. We got out of it OK, but it was a close call.
And you know what they say about encountering grizzlies in the wild.
You don't have to run faster than the bear; you only have to run faster than the guy who wore a 50lb foam troll head into the Alaskan wilderness.
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