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Oakland Seals jersey on display at the International Hockey Hall of Fame. Although attendance was finally showing some improvement and the team playing better, minority owners George and Gordon Gund persuaded Swig to seek approval to move the team to their hometown of Cleveland.
1976–77 Cleveland Barons home jersey at the Hockey Hall of Fame. The Barons originated as the California Golden Seals in the 1967 NHL expansion. Based at the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum Arena in Oakland, California; they were the least successful of the six teams added as part of that expansion. They never had a winning record and only made the ...
The Golden Seals moved after nine seasons in Oakland to become the Cleveland Barons; this was the first time in four decades the NHL approved a franchise relocation. [11] Two years later, after failed overtures towards merging with the Washington Capitals and the Vancouver Canucks , the Barons merged with the North Stars. [ 12 ]
The jerseys worn by the Los Angeles Kings (left) and the Oakland Seals in the late 1960s. The new teams offered a big change to the league. After seeing virtually the same red/blue/black uniforms for over 20 years, purple, green, sky blue, and orange were introduced. [5]
The move also marked the end of professional major league sports in Oakland, as the California Golden Seals of the NHL, who had played at the next door Oakland Arena, relocated to Cleveland in 1976, the Golden State Warriors of the NBA, who also played at Oakland Arena, moved across the bay to San Francisco in 2019 and their former co-tenant ...
Oakland even briefly had an NHL team: the California Golden Seals, which entered as an expansion franchise in 1967 and played nine seasons in Oakland before moving to become the Cleveland Barons ...