Kraken honour 1917 Stanley Cup champion Seattle Metropolitans before Tuesday's game

The Seattle Kraken honoured the city's past on Tuesday night prior to their game against the Montreal Canadiens.

Over 100 years ago, Seattle had a professional hockey team called the Metropolitans, who competed in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. In 1917, the Metropolitans advanced to the Stanley Cup Final where they faced the Kraken's opponent on Tuesday night, the Montreal Canadiens.

Seattle would go on to win the Stanley Cup in 1917, and became the first-ever American-based team to hoist the greatest trophy in all of sports. Two years later, Montreal and Seattle would go head-to-head for the Stanley Cup, but after five games the series was cancelled due to an outbreak of the Spanish flu.

The team saw this as an opportunity to honour the past, and ahead of Tuesday's clash with the NHL's oldest franchise, the Kraken raised a Stanley Cup banner, which featured the Metropolitans logo.

The @SeattleKraken throwing it way back with the unveiling of a banner for the 1917 Stanley Cup Champion Seattle Metropolitans

Their opponent in that Stanley Cup Final? The Montreal Canadiens

Their opponent tonight? The Montreal Canadiens 🤣🦑

(📸: @DavyJonesLR) pic.twitter.com/enGBZJ8Fuu— B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) October 27, 2021

"In honor of those who came before us - who were the first-ever US team to win the Stanley Cup and inspired the logo we wear on our chest. To the Seattle Metropolitans, we honor your legacy," the Kraken said in a tweet on Tuesday night.

A four-minute video was posted on the Kraken's Twitter account. The video was narrated by Cory Daniels, who is the grandson of Frank Foyston, a member of the 1917 Stanley Cup champion Metropolitans.

"Tonight, we unveil the Seattle Metropolitans 1917 championship banner. Use it as inspiration. Two eras, a century apart, but forever intertwined," Daniels said in the video.

The full video can be found below:

In honor of those who came before us - who were the first-ever US team to win the Stanley Cup and inspired the logo we wear on our chest.

To the Seattle Metropolitans, we honor your legacy. pic.twitter.com/kUiBpcCJva— Seattle Kraken (@SeattleKraken) October 27, 2021

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