Twitter pounces on Oilers for terrifying new mascot

10 years ago

Edmonton Oilers

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

Oilers Sign Slightly Demonic Cat To PTO
— 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

SOON https://t.co/3qT4Lyz4hw
— 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.