moves being considered to Vancouver for 1968 and Denver in 1975; both markets would end up getting separate NHL teams in the form of the Vancouver Canucks and Colorado Rockies. By 1976, minority owners George and Gordon Gund convinced principal owner Melvin Swig to relocate the franchise to Richfield, Ohio as the Cleveland Barons. In 1978, the Gund brothers, now sole owners, agreed to merge their organization with another flailing NHL club, the Minnesota North Stars, effectively cancelling the Seals/Barons' NHL franchise. The NHL would return to the San Francisco Bay Area with the foundation of the San Jose Sharks, created when the Gund brothers sold their interest in the North Stars in 1990 to accept an expansion franchise for 1991. In 1993, the North Stars relocated to Texas to become the Dallas Stars. Neither NHL franchise recognizes the NHL records of the Seals/Barons franchise as their own, let alone the records of the predecessor WHL franchise. Season-by-season record Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes References Bibliography External links San Francisco Seals photos at Vintagehockeyjerseys.net San Francisco Seals History at GoldenSealsHockey.com See also California Golden Seals San Jose Sharks Ice hockey teams in San Francisco Ice hockey clubs established in 1961 Ice hockey clubs disestablished in 1976 Defunct ice hockey teams in California Western Hockey League (1952–1974) teams