"I want to blame it on Buoy, they were pretty interested in his whole look," Kraken center John Hayden said Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Seattle Kraken forward John Hayden and the team's blue-haired troll mascot had a close call with a brown bear during a promotional video shoot in Alaska. Hayden and the mascot named Buoy were on a fly ...