Twitter pounces on Oilers for terrifying new mascot
Social media is proving there's more than one way to skin a cat.
The Edmonton Oilers introduced the first mascot in franchise history Monday - a lynx named after "Wild Bill" Hunter, the club's original owner.
#Oilers fans, meet Hunter: our first-ever mascot! pic.twitter.com/T1phDV73P3
- Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) September 26, 2016
Hockey Twitter was quick to mock the strangely life-like feline.
Young children will love this and it's definitely not nightmare fuel. https://t.co/qmnhwMjGft
- Marc Dumont (@MarcPDumont) September 26, 2016
Test it for rabies. https://t.co/ArZkc6gDIh
- Seth Rorabaugh (@SethRorabaugh) September 26, 2016
Hi Kids! Welcome to Edmonton. I'm Hunter. I promise my name does not suggest that I will track you and tear you limb from limb. pic.twitter.com/eXz6friCm3
- Chris Peters (@chrismpeters) September 26, 2016
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- Mike Halford (@HalfordPHT) September 26, 2016
*Immediately becomes team's third best defenceman https://t.co/pcHu0XVs8a
- Andy Donaldson (@ArticleOne1979) September 26, 2016
Hunter is like Stanley C. Panthers' cousin who moved to a cabin in the woods years ago because he wanted to be "off the grid." https://t.co/ju1AJpv80h
- Jameson Olive (@JamesonCoop) September 26, 2016
The eyes never lie. Hunter is going to eat you.https://t.co/e74bImA7rq
- Jason Brough (@JasonPHT) September 26, 2016
Hunter will always look like it's in mid-sentence, which kind of describes the Oilers for the past decade. https://t.co/SSvOVOJ7ZG
- Kristopher Martel (@kmartel_sports) September 26, 2016
The distended, water soaked corpse head of post flood Harvey wasn't even this disturbing https://t.co/JQlR4Ov6Mw
- Roger Podacter (@bookofloob) September 26, 2016
- RMNB (@russianmachine) September 26, 2016
We hired Milan Lucic to keep this thing away from McDavid. https://t.co/X6K8Vw7Xg8
- Winging It In Motown (@wingingitmotown) September 26, 2016
Did I miss the press release where the Oilers changed their name to the Soul-Eating Wildcats? https://t.co/1NGgjZocqZ
- Stephen Whyno (@SWhyno) September 26, 2016
Florida Panthers goaltender Roberto Luongo chimed in as well.
WTF is that??? https://t.co/IfsboNo2oO
- Strombone (@strombone1) September 26, 2016
It's perhaps less frightening than the New Orleans Pelicans' original mascot, but not by much.
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