Skip to Main Content. First season: 1991-92 Home arena: SAP Center at San Jose. NHL All-Star logo and NHL All-Star Skills Competition name and logo are trademarks of the National Hockey League. They 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… All Rights Reserved. Stanley Cups won: 0 Stanley Cup Final appearances: 1. The Oakland Coliseum Arena was home to the California Golden Seals of the NHL from 1967 to 1976, who were neither successful on the ice nor at the box office. Seven varieties of sharks live in the Pacific Ocean, and there are many shark research facilities in the San … San Jose Sharks History. Copyright © 1999-2020 San Jose Sharks, LLC and the National Hockey League. 1. San Jose Sharks name and primary logo are registered trademarks of San Jose Sharks, LLC. Out of 5000 entries, the nickname Sharks was selected for San Jose's expansion NHL franchise. San Jose Sharks. Gordon and George Gund III became minority owners of the Seals in 1974, and were instrumental in their move to Cleveland in 1976 and a 1978 merger with the Minnesota North Stars, which they purchased that year. The Official Site of the San Jose Sharks. NHL, the NHL Shield, the word mark and image of the Stanley Cup and NHL Conference logos are registered trademarks of the National Hockey League. All NHL logos and marks and NHL team logos and marks as well as all other proprietary materials depicted herein are the property of the NHL and the respective NHL teams and may not be reproduced without the prior written consent of NHL Enterprises, L.P. sjsharks.com is the official Web site of the San Jose Sharks. In 2015, The Hockey News unveiled its list of the top 100 hockey jerseys of all time and the San Jose Sharks original sweater has been selected as No.