Talk:California Golden Seals

message: Can anyone substantiate the team being renamed "California Seals" in 1974? I've never seen it mentioned anywhere else. Almost every source I've seen makes no mention of it, and several explicitly state the team was named "California Golden Seals" from 1970 'til they moved to Cleveland. --93JC 05:09, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
:Here is a year by year of the team with their name:
::Oakland Seals (1967 to 1970): 
::California Golden Seals (1970-1974): 
::California Seals (1974-1976): 
::Cleveland Barons (1976-1978): 
:I hope this helps! Masterhatch 18 August 2005
:::I'm pretty sure hockeydb is wrong. This site in particular: http://www.sealshockey.com/seasons.html, seems quite definitive. As you can see, the team's official '74-'75 and '75-'76 media guides both read "California Golden Seals". The official teams photos also read "California Golden Seals" (http://www.sealshockey.com/season_1974-75.html ; http://www.sealshockey.com/season_1975-76.html). As far as I know the only change the NHL made to the team in the '74 offseason was the uniforms: dropping the Kelly green and gold with white skates for Pacific blue, white and gold with traditional black skates. --93JC 02:43, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
Speculation on my part, but I think there's some evidence that the team was planning to drop the "Golden" and revert to the "California Seals" name for 1976-77.  The team's newsletter ("Sparky Seal Reports") begins to use the name "California Seals Hockey Club" on its masthead about mid-season 1975-76, and the '76-'77 Topps hockey cards (printed before the move to Cleveland was announced) show the team as "Seals", rather than "Golden Seals" as they had in the past.  207.164.171.148 (talk) 16:36, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I am wondering why this page is under the oakland seals if the the franchise ultimently became the Cleveland Barons before merging into the starsSmith03 16:45, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Currently, there seems to be a standard practice of separating teams that played in different cities if the time spent in each city is significant, for example Calgary Flames/Atlanta Flames. For teams that spend only a short time in a different city (for example Ottawa Senators/St. Louis Eagles) it is currently standard practice to group them together. For the Barons, it made more sense to group them with the Seals as they were essentially the same team, just different city. The barons didn't have a long enough or great enough history in Cleveland to warrent their own article. But this is only standard practice and not policy, but it is a standard practice that makes sense. Masterhatch 16:55, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Concur.  As to that, I was looking at the separate pages for the Kansas City Scouts and the Colorado Rockies last night and wondering whether they should be combined, seeing as the team was in KC for only two seasons. Ravenswing 03:10, September 7, 2005 (UTC)
How about since they were the California Golden Seals twice as long as the Oakland Seals have the page under California?Smith03 19:11, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleveland Barons

message: Yes, they were the last team to vanish from the four major leagues, but there were still at least three WHA teams that folded afterwards (Indianapolis, Cincinatti, and Birmingham).  Just wanted to clarify that.  Doogie2K 19:29, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think anyone would dispute that, but just as many wouldn't call the USFL or the XFL "major leagues," not many would call the WHA a major league on a par with the NHL.  Ravenswing 05:43, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last team to fold? 

message: I know there is a  website out there about the Seals and they state the team name was change Dec 1967 from Cal to Oak. However I have done research using Mpls Tribune newspaper on microfische(sp) from that era and found an article from Novemer 1967 about the name change with the name change occuring at that time (November not December of 1967) I have change the article to read Nov but see it gets change back. I would suggest to people who live in the Bay area or any place that had a NHL team in 1967 to check with newspapers of that time to see when the change occur. Smith03 20:07, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: November not December 1967

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Sealslogo.gif

message: Is it true to say the WHL team is the same as the NHL team?  I would think they would be two distinct teams.  I'm not sure so that's why I'm posting this question.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wjb (talk • contribs) 00:42, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This is news to me aswell. GoodDay (talk) 05:01, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

text: * I'm satisfied; the fellow who put that edit in demonstrated that - as with the Vancouver Canucks - the NHL franchise was obtained by the same people who owned the WHL San Francisco Seals.   Ravenswing   05:26, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  WHL vs NHL Franchise 

message: Recent changes in the "History" added Minnesota North Stars and Dallas Stars to the franchise.  I can see the desire to add the North Stars name to the list after it's merger with the Barons but I do not know if this fits within Wikipedia's guidelines.  However, if this is valid, according the the Wikipedia article on the Barons "Thirteen years later, in 1991, the merger would effectively be undone as the Gunds assumed ownership of the expansion San Jose Sharks..", this should be updated to one of the following:
- Ending the history with the North Stars in 1991
- Removing all history with the (North) Stars
I would think removing the link with the North Stars and Stars is proper if the merger was "undone" but that statement is not cited.  Also, what is meant by "undone"?
I am not making any mods at this time and am looking for input from others.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wjb (talk • contribs) 21:57, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  After the merger 

message: Shouldn't the logo used in the info box be changed (the green and gold one)? The article even says that it was never officially adopted by the team. Their logo was the blue, green and yellow Seal emblem until 1970 and then it was just the stylized word Seals. One of those should be used for the main article image.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.147.174.153 (talk) 02:50, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox logo