Well we're the Panthers so I think it would be odd for the team to get a pet as a mascot and for it to be anything other than a Panther. It would travel to all our away games with us, we'd likely set it free in the other team's locker room to at the very least poop on the floor and take some bites out of equipment, but if a player or two lose a finger we certainly wouldn't be unhappy about that prior to the games. It's like a guard dog on steroids for when we're in neighbourhoods that are less safe, and it helps to just keep everyone in line. Yes, I'm sure that we could just get a small tabby cat and just call that our Panther mascot - cats are cats, right? Wrong. If you half ass your mascot acquisition, then how can you be expected to go out on the ice and full ass your way to a cup?