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The California Golden Seals were a professional ice hockey club that competed in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1967 to 1976. Based in Oakland, California , they played their home games at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena .
The 1968–69 Oakland Seals season was the Seals' second season in the National Hockey League.For the first time in their history they qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs after finishing second in the West Division, with a record of 29–36–11.
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 1967–68 Oakland Seals season was their first season in the National Hockey League (NHL). It began inauspiciously, with the firing of General Manager Rudy Pilous before the expansion draft. [1] The Seals started their inaugural season with Hall of Famer Bert Olmstead as both coach and general manager, assisted by Gord Fashoway. [1]
This is a list of players who have played at least one game for the California Golden Seals franchise of the National Hockey League (NHL). This list does not include players for the Cleveland Barons or the Minnesota North Stars and the Dallas Stars of the NHL.
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 ...
The 1969–70 Oakland Seals season was the Seals' third season in the NHL. ... Seals on Database Hockey This page was last edited on 5 October 2024, at ...
However, after only a few months, the team had failed to attract many fans from San Francisco, and the name was changed to the Oakland Seals. When Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley bought the Seals in 1970, he renamed them the California Golden Seals ; Finley would quickly lose patience with the struggling franchise and ended up selling the team ...