title: 1972–73 California Golden Seals season
California Golden Seals
List of California Golden Seals draft picks
List of California Golden Seals head coaches
The Golden Seals
Brady Seals
Mike Laughton
1970–71 California Golden Seals season
Columbus Golden Seals
Vector (band)
sentences: The 1972–73 California Golden Seals season was the California Golden Seals' sixth season in the NHL.
 The Seals were hit particularly hard by defections to the new World Hockey Association, dropping 12 points from the previous year and returning to the basement of the West Division.
 The Seals had the worst record in the National Hockey League with a 13–55–10 record.
The California Golden Seals were a team in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1967 to 1976.
 Initially named California Seals, the team was renamed Oakland Seals partway through the 1967–68 season (on December 8, 1967), and then to California Golden Seals in 1970.
 The Seals were one of six teams added to the league as part of the 1967 NHL expansion.
 Based in Oakland, California, they played their home games at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena.
 However, the Seals were never successful at the gate, and eventually moved to Cleveland to become the Cleveland Barons in 1976.
The California Golden Seals were a professional ice hockey franchise based in Oakland, California from 1967–76.
 They played their first seven seasons in the West Division and their final two seasons in the Adams Division.
 During their time in Oakland the Golden Seals drafted 72 players and participated in ten National Hockey League Amateur Drafts before the franchise relocated to Cleveland, Ohio on July 14, 1976.
This is a list of coaches of the California Seals, Oakland Seals and California Golden Seals.
 Eight men coached the Seals from their creation for the 1967–68 NHL season until the team moved to Cleveland, Ohio after the 1975–76 NHL season.
 Fred Glover had two stints as coach of the Seals.
 Bert Olmstead is the only Seals coach inducted in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
The Golden Seals are a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1999 and based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
 The band is led by singer and songwriter Dave Merritt.
 Other members include Philip Shaw Bova, Matt Ouimet, Steve Boudreau and Mike Bonnell.
Brady Seals (born March 29, 1969) is an American country music artist.
 He is the cousin of Jim Seals (of Seals & Crofts) and Dan Seals and Johnny Duncan, the nephew of Troy Seals, and the husband of former BNA Records recording artist Lisa Stewart.
 Seals made his debut in 1988 as co-lead vocalist and keyboardist in the sextet Little Texas, with whom he recorded until his departure in late 1994.
 Between then and 2002, he recorded as a solo singer, releasing three studio albums and charting in the Top 40 on the country charts with "Another You, Another Me".
 In 2002, Seals formed a quartet called Hot Apple Pie, in which he has recorded one studio album and charted three singles.
 A fourth solo album, "Play Time", was released in 2009 via Star City.
Michael Frederick Laughton (born February 21, 1944) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 189 games in the National Hockey League and 203 games in the World Hockey Association.
 He played for the California Golden Seals, New York Raiders, New York Golden Blades, New Jersey Knights, and San Diego Mariners.
He was sold to the Montreal Canadiens before the start of the 1971-72 season by the California Golden Seals.
 Not being able to make the team with an already stacked lineup, Laughton was sent down to the Nova Scotia Voyageurs of the American Hockey League and made team captain by head coach Al MacNeil.
 He led the team that included Larry Robinson and Yvon Lambert, future stars on the Canadiens, to the Calder Cup championship in 1972.
The 1970–71 California Golden Seals season was the Seals' fourth in the NHL, but their first as the "Golden Seals".
 Oakland Athletics owner Charlie O. Finley bought the team in the offseason for approximately $4,500,000.
 He announced that the name of the team was being changed to Bay Area Seals, but two games into the season changed it again to California Golden Seals, in an attempt to draw fans from across the state of California, in particular from nearby San Francisco.
 Along with the name change came new green and gold colours, and a new logo and uniforms.
The Columbus Golden Seals were a minor league professional ice hockey team in the International Hockey League from 1971 to 1973.
 Columbus operated as a farm team to the National Hockey League's California Golden Seals.
 The owner of the NHL Seals, Charlie Finley, had acquired the IHL franchise rights to the dormant Columbus Checkers to create the farm team.
 In 1973, Finley sold the Columbus Golden Seals.
 The new owner, Al Savill, renamed the team the Columbus Owls for the 1973–74 season.
Vector was a rock band formed in Sacramento, California in the early 1980s by Jimmy Abegg, Steve Griffith and Charlie Peacock.
 The band had several drummers over the years, including Aaron Smith and Bruce Spencer, both of whom also played drums for The 77s.

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 The 1972–73 California Golden Seals season was the California Golden Seals' sixth season in the NHL.
 The Seals were hit particularly hard by defections to the new World Hockey Association, dropping 12 points from the previous year and returning to the basement of the West Division.
 The Seals had the worst record in the National Hockey League with a 13–55–10 record. 

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 The California Golden Seals were a team in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1967 to 1976.
 Initially named California Seals, the team was renamed Oakland Seals partway through the 1967–68 season (on December 8, 1967), and then to California Golden Seals in 1970.
 The Seals were one of six teams added to the league as part of the 1967 NHL expansion.
 Based in Oakland, California, they played their home games at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena.
 However, the Seals were never successful at the gate, and eventually moved to Cleveland to become the Cleveland Barons in 1976. 

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 The California Golden Seals were a professional ice hockey franchise based in Oakland, California from 1967–76.
 They played their first seven seasons in the West Division and their final two seasons in the Adams Division.
 During their time in Oakland the Golden Seals drafted 72 players and participated in ten National Hockey League Amateur Drafts before the franchise relocated to Cleveland, Ohio on July 14, 1976. 

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 The Golden Seals are a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1999 and based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
 The band is led by singer and songwriter Dave Merritt.
 Other members include Philip Shaw Bova, Matt Ouimet, Steve Boudreau and Mike Bonnell. 

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 Brady Seals (born March 29, 1969) is an American country music artist.
 He is the cousin of Jim Seals (of Seals & Crofts) and Dan Seals and Johnny Duncan, the nephew of Troy Seals, and the husband of former BNA Records recording artist Lisa Stewart.
 Seals made his debut in 1988 as co-lead vocalist and keyboardist in the sextet Little Texas, with whom he recorded until his departure in late 1994.
 Between then and 2002, he recorded as a solo singer, releasing three studio albums and charting in the Top 40 on the country charts with "Another You, Another Me".
 In 2002, Seals formed a quartet called Hot Apple Pie, in which he has recorded one studio album and charted three singles.
 A fourth solo album, "Play Time", was released in 2009 via Star City. 

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 Michael Frederick Laughton (born February 21, 1944) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 189 games in the National Hockey League and 203 games in the World Hockey Association.
 He played for the California Golden Seals, New York Raiders, New York Golden Blades, New Jersey Knights, and San Diego Mariners.
He was sold to the Montreal Canadiens before the start of the 1971-72 season by the California Golden Seals.
 Not being able to make the team with an already stacked lineup, Laughton was sent down to the Nova Scotia Voyageurs of the American Hockey League and made team captain by head coach Al MacNeil.
 He led the team that included Larry Robinson and Yvon Lambert, future stars on the Canadiens, to the Calder Cup championship in 1972. 

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 The Columbus Golden Seals were a minor league professional ice hockey team in the International Hockey League from 1971 to 1973.
 Columbus operated as a farm team to the National Hockey League's California Golden Seals.
 The owner of the NHL Seals, Charlie Finley, had acquired the IHL franchise rights to the dormant Columbus Checkers to create the farm team.
 In 1973, Finley sold the Columbus Golden Seals.
 The new owner, Al Savill, renamed the team the Columbus Owls for the 1973–74 season. 

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 Vector was a rock band formed in Sacramento, California in the early 1980s by Jimmy Abegg, Steve Griffith and Charlie Peacock.
 The band had several drummers over the years, including Aaron Smith and Bruce Spencer, both of whom also played drums for The 77s. 

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Answer: Vector