Twitter pounces on Oilers for terrifying new mascot

#Oilers fans, meet Hunter: our first-ever mascot! 😺 pic.twitter.com/T1phDV73P3

— Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) September 26, 2016

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

WTF is that??? https://t.co/IfsboNo2oO

— Strombone (@strombone1) September 26, 2016