California Golden Seals

So the mood was very, very different, Kevin.

I think what's even cooler, Kevin, is Chris was a draft pick not of the Boston Bruins nor of the Vancouver Canucks, but Chris was drafted by the California Seals.

I mean, that is one of the ultimate trivia clubs to be drafted by the Seals who were – arguably one of the most ill-run franchises in the history of professional sports, even though I actually had friends that worked for the organization in those years.

But to be a first-round pick, to be drafted by them, and then you were also part indirectly of one of the great trades of all time from California to Montreal in getting the fact that Guy Lafleur got drafted by Canadians after Sam Pollock pulled the wool over a few people's eyes in the Bay

Area.

As he did.

Back to your first introduction with the Oakland Seals.

I put that organization where it is now.

Staggy, when you think about talking about the history of this franchise that's been around for 60 years now, If you really step back about a minute and think about it, it's really a story of AM after Mario and PM pre-Mario.

And that's really a little bit of the structure of this book, which was talking about the fact that I look at the way the Penguins, if you look at the Penguins and how the class of 67 expansion franchises came in, other than the Golden Seals who ended up moving, really the Penguins were the worst.

of those franchises.

I mean, they buy a lot of different metrics and then Mario comes.

The NHL three years earlier had done something really, when you look back on it, was kind of preposterous.

They doubled the size of the league from the original six, and they added the Flyers, the Penguins, the North Stars, St. Louis Blues, Oakland Seals, and Los Angeles Kings, and put them all in one division.

And then the two division winners played in the Cup final.

So Bruins are basically playing an expansion team.

haven't heard anything either with that one.

Or the California Golden Seals.

All

I hear about is not being able to see the games on TV.

Yeah, ain't you right there.

But we can get David some information and bring it back next time, I'm sure.

Yeah, if you guys find out anything about the patch or- I'm gonna check into the California Golden Seals.

So Alex, if you could handle the Golden Seals- You do the blues.

So this is a team that doesn't win their first game on the road until...

March 28th against the California Golden Seals.

They win 5-3.

So after 32 games, they finally win their first road game.

Winnipeg wins 42-18 and Jacobs sits out after the first quarter.

In 1975, Ojibwe defenseman Gary Sargent scores the first goal of his National Hockey League career as the Los Angeles Kings defeat the California Golden Seals 5-3.

Sargent beats goaltender Gary Simmons on a power play at 1532 of the second period, the first of 61 National Hockey League goals in his career.

Two years later, in 1977, Cherokee shortstop Bucky Dent becomes a World Series champion as the New York Yankees defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers in six games.

But even then, I still think we made the playoffs those years.

Because there were the California Seals and such.

But man, this start, it's been absolutely fucking miserable.

Just fucking atrocious.