<Tr> <Th> Conference championships </Th> <Td> 0 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Division championships </Th> <Td> 0 </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 . </P> <P> In 1966, the NHL announced that six expansion teams would be added as a new division for the 1967--68 season, officially because of a general desire to expand the league to new markets, but just as importantly to squelch the Western Hockey League's threat to turn into a major league . The San Francisco Seals were one such team from the WHL . The NHL awarded an expansion team to Barry Van Gerbig for the San Francisco Bay area . Van Gerbig decided to purchase the WHL club with the intent of bringing them into the NHL as an expansion team the following season . Van Gerbig had planned to have the team play in a new arena in San Francisco, but the new arena was never built . He decided to move the team across the Bay from the Cow Palace in Daly City to Oakland to play in the new Oakland--Alameda County Coliseum Arena (now known as Oracle Arena). He renamed the club the California Seals . This was done in an attempt to appeal to fans from San Francisco, and to address complaints from the other NHL teams that Oakland was not considered a major league city (notwithstanding the presence of the American Football League's Oakland Raiders and the pending relocation of Major League Baseball's Kansas City Athletics) and would not be a draw for fans . A year later Van Gerbig brought the Seals into the NHL as an expansion team and retained a portion of the club's WHL roster such as Charlie Burns, George Swarbrick, Gerry Odrowski, Tom Thurlby, and Ron Harris . While the Bay Area was not considered a particularly lucrative hockey market, the terms of a new television agreement with CBS called for two of the expansion teams to be located in California . </P>

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