NHL mascot nearly attacked by bear during video shoot

 Sorry guys I've been busy lately with family stuff. It's summertime and the kids are off from school so lots of road trips and grandma visits and going to the movies, you know, anything to divert them from their gadgets for awhile. We're planning a trip to Niagara Falls soon that should be fun.

I haven't written about hockey on this blog yet. The last time I attended a hockey game I was in a luxury suite at a Sabres game. I hadn't met my wife yet, so I was leading a different lifestyle back then. 

Pretty much spending all my money on sporting events. I did see Kobe play and I saw LeBron actually play, LeBron was with Cleveland and both games were in Toronto. Ironically, when I went to see the Cavaliers in Cleveland,  LeBron didn't play.

 He had an injury and that's the chance you take going to a game. At least he was really hurt and not out for rest like Chris Paul did to me...I was so furious, isn't that what the off season is for? Michael Jordan played with the flu just saying.

Back to the NHL...if I'm writing about hockey in the off season then something amazing or unbelievable happened and it's both.

Buoy, the blue haired troll mascot of the Seattle Kracken and forward John Hayden were in Alaska on a video shoot. They were knee deep in shallow water fly-fishing when a brown bear appeared and began approaching them. 

The bear actually charged towards the mascot before turning back around as the film crew waded out of the water on the opposite shore. Bears frequent the river for salmon. 

Kracken Partnership Marketing Director Melissa O'Brochta said, "Bears are everywhere at Brooks Falls and like this is their territory. They're also super used to seeing humans. So I wasn't scared."

Look, I can understand the team doing a promotional video in Alaska, the scenery up there is truly breathtaking, but don't you have a lookout or a guide with tranquilizers just in case a bear shows up? This is a professional video shoot where's the security?

I have a couple of questions for the Marketing Director. If "bears are everywhere and it's their territory", what are you doing there? This isn't a lazy weekend on the Bayou.

I like when she says the bears are 'used to seeing humans' and that she 'wasn't scared.' So my followup question would be, do you have a death wish?

Hey Melissa, why would you bring your crew into bear territory? Luckily no one got hurt or killed. Despite the bears being used to seeing humans, I would be terrified. Do you know why? Because bears are gonna bear. Lucky for you guys this bear was just protecting his food source or he would've kept coming.