Kraken Fan Check-in!

[Gniwder]

Not a big fan of this kinda stuff, but I'll pretend to be social.

1) Age, sex, location
48, M, Bellingham

2) How did you first find HF?
Don't remember

3) How did you come up with your screen name?
Red Wing spelled backwards

4) Current team, and which will be #1?
Caps followed by Wings

5) Any players you hope Seattle will get?
TJ of course

6) Favorite Current player?
Larkin

7) Favorite player all time?
Mike Gartner

8) Favorite movie?
Star Wars (the original movie)

9) What type of music are you into?
Classic Rock

10) What are your hobbies?
Skiing, hunting, fishing

Skipping 11 - 17

18) If you came back in your next life as an animal, what animal would you be?
Any bird of prey because I want to fly but not get eaten.

19) Next place on your travel bucket list?
Hawaii

20) What was your favorite holiday vacation
Monarch, CO. First real powder day skiing.

21) Worst Vacation
I suppose I've taken some fishing trips where I got skunked, but that's why someone invented beer. If the worst thing that's ever happened to you on a trip is not catching fish, there's not a whole lot to complain about.

24) Fav drink (booze or whatever)
Guinness

25) If you could--who on the board or site would you go out for a drink with
Anyone who wants to stop by Bellingham or Glacier

 

[Emerald City Bruin]

Not local anymore but grew up and went to college (UW) in the area. How do you know I’m a former Seattle resident?

Herfey’s
Pizza Haven

Old school baby!

Pizza Haven - Center House or Pizza Haven - Broadway?

Was more of a Pietro's guy, myself.

 

[Dolemite]

Pizza Haven - Center House or Pizza Haven - Broadway?

Was more of a Pietro's guy, myself.

On Broadway or the Ave? Pagliaccis.

 

[Toomany7pins]

Pizza Haven Shoreline. Pizza smorgasbord weds nights.
Yum!!!

 

[PG Canuck]

Not a local but I’m a Seattle nut. Huge Mariners fan, Hawks fan, and I started to follow the Sounders although I’m not big into MLS. Love everything about the city and have been many times and hope to be many more down the road.

Can’t wait to add another reason to love Seattle to my list.

 

[AlaskaJet]

Molalla Oregon here transplanted from 27 years in Alaska cheering for my hometown Wpg Jets.
Now that I’m within a driveable team, I’m stoked 100 % to be a Seattle fan! You should be looking at at least one good forward from the Jets, but don’t get sucked in by anything else!

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I am from the UK/Pittsburgh that lived in Seattle & Bellevue for a good 5+yrs before I moved to Vancouver. It's still a place I visit a few times a year and stay in a week at a time when I go.

I miss living there dearly, but with the team happening, I can't wait to be there even more than I usually am.

I am a diehard Pens fan first, but I can now root for a 2nd team from a place I called home once upon a time.

 

[Nsjohnson]

1) Age, sex, location
35, m, Kitsap county

Me too!

 

[Nsjohnson]

1) Age, sex, location
31, m, Bainbridge Island

2) How did you first find HF?
2010 Minnesota Wild draft lurker. I didn't decide to join in the fun until 2012, right around the draft.

3) How did you come up with your screen name?
Long time name thing.

4) Current team, and which will be #1?
MN Wild as I am from MN, and will be, but Seattle may push Washington to #3.

5) Any players you hope Seattle will get?
Well, whichever player from the Wild they get I'll be rooting for.

6) Favorite Current player?
Ovechkin, then prob Brodin.

7) Favorite player all time?
Foppa

8) Favorite movie?
Too hard to answer. Maybe Gladiator. Maybe LOTR:TFOTR

9) What type of music are you into?
Progressive Metal, Jazz, Folk

10) What are your hobbies?
Hiking, Guitar, Hockey, Church, Gym, Food

11) What do you do for a living?
Doctor

12) What’s your favourite thing about your current job?
The relationships made with families and individuals. I learn as much from them as they might from me!

13) Married, single Kids?
Married
.
.
.

19) Next place on your travel bucket list?
Well, it's not the #1 but the next place we are going is back to Europe for my wife's sister's wedding in Poland. We may go to Hungary or Slovakia too.

20) What was your favorite holiday vacation
Our wedding in Poland. Otherwise honestly backpacking Glacier.

21) Worst Vacation
I don't think I've been on a 'worst' vaca.

24) Fav drink (booze or whatever)
Probably Youngs Double Chocolate Stout

25) If you could--who on the board or site would you go out for a drink with
Well, I suppose anyone who wanted to, as long as they are a dude and likes hockey, and especially from MN.

 

[brewski420]

Recently relocated from Seattle area to Ohio originally from NW Pennsylvania. Lived in Maple Valley over 13 years watched a lot of T-Birds. Extremely happy NHL in Seattle, wish I was still there. Pens will always be #1 but NHL Seattle will be close 2nd!!

 

[Brodeur]

Wasn't sure if there was a better thread for this, but I stumbled on a U16 tournament happening this weekend. Tickets are free according to the Tbirds site: Inaugural WHL U.S. Challenge Cup to begin Friday – WHL Network

I'm headed up this weekend for my old roommate's bachelor party, but now I'm tempted to sneak out for a game.

 

[Gniwder]

dP

 

[RustyRazor]

45 year old lifelong Penguins fan who lives in Dallas, OR. Been hoping for a team to relocate to PDX, now that the league has filled the west thru expansion and a local team is unlikely, I'll take what I can get for local hockey... the Kraken will be my first and only 2nd favorite team. Hoping for a shitty first season in the wins column, good luck in the 2022 draft lottery and a chance at an elite franchise center in the team's second ever entry draft.

 

[Fistfullofbeer]

I would love to watch games with folks who are local to Whidbey. I plan on going to a few games a year but will really be watching majority on tv and would love to head to bars and do that. Or even at our respective houses.

 

[Tao Jersey Jones]

1) Age, sex, location
54 (next month), male, Milwaukie, OR.

2) How did you first find HF?
I used to post on nj.com and Jim @Out of Business pointed me the way.

3) How did you come up with your screen name?
My Zen Shiatsu instructor made a joke about the national debt in the 90's and I kept it.

4) Current team, and which will be #1?
New Jersey Devils, Devils

5) Any players you hope Seattle will get?
Blake Coleman

6) Favourite Current player?
Mackenzie Blackwood

7) Favourite player all time?
Bernie Parent

8) Favourite movie?
Star Wars

9) What type of music are you into?
Grew up on classic rock, but I listen to whatever is on local community radio. I listen to KMHD jazz and KBOO in the car. Saw the Grateful Dead 22 times, Jerry Garcia solo three times.

10) What are your hobbies?
Outdoors, hiking, craft beer, potent flower, CBD, ashwagandha, tulsi, bacopa

11) What do you do for a living?
Campaign Manager

12) What’s your favourite thing about your current job?
Location, staff diversity.

13) Married, single Kids?
Single, child-free.

14) What’s a relationship deal breaker for you?
Tobacco

15) If you won a million dollars, what would you do with the money?
Pay off my student loan, raise awareness for dyspraxia.

16) If you found out today was your last day on Earth, what would you do?
Call my family.

17) What is your hidden super power A HIDDEN SUPER POWER IS SOMETHING YOU DO THAT MAY SURPRISE OTHERS OR JUST AMUSE PEOPLE--
Patience.

18) If you came back in your next life as an animal, what animal would you be?
Homo sapiens

19) Next place on your travel bucket list?
Canada, states I've never been to: Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina

20) What was your favorite holiday vacation?
San Diego

21) Worst Vacation?
Los Angeles

22) Craziest thing you've done (legal)
I climbed the ladder of an abandoned silo to the top and stood on the edge when I was 13.

23) Four people from now or from history you'd have over for dinner for a conversation
Florence Welch, Cara Delevingne, Daniel Radcliffe, and photographer David Bailey; to ask them to do a dyspraxia awareness project with Labour MP Emma Lewell-Buck.

24) Fav drink (booze or whatever)
Barley Brown's Pallet Jack IPA

25) If you could--who on the board or site would you go out for a drink with?
@Viqsi

 

[Viqsi]

25) If you could--who on the board or site would you go out for a drink with?
@Viqsi

I'm flattered, but I don't drink.

 

[Tao Jersey Jones]

I'm flattered, but I don't drink.

We could have non-alcoholic beverages.

 

[The Marquis]

This is actually my first post. Lifelong hockey fan, but having a team nearby has me wanting to connect with folks about it.

1) Age, sex, location
- 41, M, Washougal, WA
2) How did you first find HF?
- Google
3) How did you come up with your screen name?
- It's a comic book, a dark twisted comic book.
4) Current team, and which will be #1?
New Jersey Devils. Been a fan since the North Stars moved to Dallas, so 25+ years now? Right now it's looking like co-#1's. We'll see how that plays out.
5) Any players you hope Seattle will get?
- I have no preference at this point. I think it's more the team than any individual player. I can name 20 I probably don't want.
6) Favourite Current player?
- Connor McDavid (I know, but the dude is fun!)
7) Favourite player all time?
- Scott Stevens
8) Favourite movie?
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
9) What type of music are you into?
- I listen to a LOT of music and varieties that exclude nothing. My most listened to genre's would probably be punk, post-punk, post-rock and outlaw country. Right now I'm particularly fond of Jason Isbell, Tyson Motsenbocker, The Blamed, Luxury, Lifestory: Monologue and mewithoutYou.
10) What are your hobbies?
- Music, hiking, hunting, fishing, kayaking, bicycling, David Lynch films/tv shows
11) What do you do for a living?
- Facilities Manager
12) What’s your favourite thing about your current job?
- benefits
13) Married, single Kids?
- Married. 2 kids
14) What’s a relationship deal breaker for you?
- Hadn't thought about this in decades.
15) If you won a million dollars, what would you do with the money?
- Buy a bunch of property in several locations, NE Washington, San Juan's, Olympics, etc. For recreation. Already have some land up near Leavenworth.
16) If you found out today was your last day on Earth, what would you do?
- Tell nobody, set my affairs in order and invite my whole family over to bid them farewell.
17) What is your hidden super power A HIDDEN SUPER POWER IS SOMETHING YOU DO THAT MAY SURPRISE OTHERS OR JUST AMUSE PEOPLE--
- I'm insanely good at navigation. I can go out into the woods in a place I've never been and have no problem knowing where I am. Also, trivia, geographic information, and while I'm a biggish guy, I am in MUCH better shape than I look. Putting on 30 miles in a day, with 7000 feet of elevation gain is just another day for me in October and November.
18) If you came back in your next life as an animal, what animal would you be?
- Bear. I'm basically that already.
19) Next place on your travel bucket list?
- Antarctica
20) What was your favorite holiday vacation
- I enjoy my annual to Vancouver Island to be the best of any.
21) Worst Vacation
- Had one to Ocean Shores, WA once.
22) Craziest thing you've done (legal)
- I lived in remote Uganda for nearly half a year.
23) Four people from now or from history you'd have over for dinner for a conversation
- This doesn't really interest me at all, but if I had to pick one, probably David Lynch, because it'd at the very least be absurd enough to spark my strange sense of humor.
24) Fav drink (booze or whatever)
- Any Sour Beer probably.
25) If you could--who on the board or site would you go out for a drink with
- Myself... only because this is my first post.

 

[AlaskaJet]

Sorry if this isn't allowed, but now that we have a team, it would be kinda cool to get to know 'local' fans who could in the near-future be the people we hang out with at a bar watching Seattle play.

Olympia-area here

The “Office” Bar and Grill on Mottman has lots of screens and friendly staff, watched a few games there already..

 

[Grimes]

Diehard Yotes fan here who has been eyeing Seattle since it was announced because, well AZ doesn't have what many call "stable ownership". After being a team just bad enough to miss the playoffs but not good enough to have a top pick, or a team whose GM has outright traded 1sts (2020, 2017, and Domi, Strome, Perlini, Merkely and POJ are all 1st rounders traded by Chayka. We got Schmaltz, four months of Hall and a shell of Kessel in return) I'm inching closer and closer to jumping completely on board to Seattle. I have friends in the area and was spending a bit of time in the city for work the past couple years and have always loved the Pacific Northwest.

Four losses in a row. The Coyotes look disinterested and a fresh start is sounding better and better. Seattle will absolutely be my second team but could end up being my main squeeze soon enough. Wanted to officially kick off my posting around the Kraken area!

 

[Fistfullofbeer]

Sorry if this isn't allowed, but now that we have a team, it would be kinda cool to get to know 'local' fans who could in the near-future be the people we hang out with at a bar watching Seattle play.

Olympia-area here

This should absolutely be a thing .. ha ha. Though .. where I live (South Whidbey Island) the bars don't really stay open past 10 PM. Would still love to hang out with any local folks around here.

 

[Club]

Buffalo fan checking in. But I'll definitely be up to date with the Kraken. The jerseys made me fall in love

 

[Elandan]

Hi all, longsuffering Leafs fan here, ready to do the unthinkable...defect from the Maple Leafs and cheer for the Kraken! I can't handle the Leafs anymore!!
I am 36 years old, and am from northern Ontario. I currently live outside of Vancouver, BC, and I absolutely hate the Canucks. So I figure it would be natural to jump aboard your wagon
I am still processing this haha, but I think the Leafs broke me. Hello Kraken Nation??

 

[Panteras]

South Florida native, but have lived in the Seattle area for the past 5 years. I will be moving out by the end of the month though (military family). Bummed I won’t be able to go to games for the inaugural season but will be cheering from afar. Panthers will always be my #1 team but it feels good to cheer for a team in the west. Let’s go Kraken!! I’ll still keep my WA plates, was thinking of running the new Kraken ones lol

 

[The Marquis]

Thread related question,

Do any of you few Seattle locals laugh every time you open this thread?