The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They play their home games at the HP Pavilion at San Jose (also known as The Shark Tank).
The Oakland Coliseum Arena was home to the California Golden Seals of the NHL from 1967-1976. Gordon and George Gund, who ended up moving that team to Clev...
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The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They play their home games at the HP Pavilion at San Jose (also known as The Shark Tank).
The Oakland Coliseum Arena was home to the California Golden Seals of the NHL from 1967-1976. Gordon and George Gund, who ended up moving that team to Cleveland and eventually merging it with the Minnesota North Stars, had long wanted to bring hockey back to the Bay Area and asked the NHL for permission to move the North Stars there in the late 1980s, but the league vetoed them. Meanwhile, a group led by former Hartford Whalers owner Howard Baldwin was pushing the NHL to bring a team to San Jose, where a new arena was being built. Eventually the league struck a compromise: the Gunds would sell their share of the North Stars to Baldwin's group, with the Gunds receiving an expansion team in the...
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