Half a century ago, as a kid growing up amid cornfields in summer and interminable lake-effect overcast in winter, seeing Oakland, California on my television dripped with the exotic. It was where all ...

The National Hockey League has gone through several eras in its long and storied history. The “Original Six” era is still commonly seen as one of the most important times, but the “Expansion” era from ...

The Seals - also known as the Oakland Seals and, for a brief two month stretch, the Bay Area Seals - were a 1967 NHL expansion franchise. In honor of the fifty year anniversary of that expansion, on ...

Poulsbo resident and former longtime NHL defenseman Bert Marshall chuckled at a suggested link between a Kraken squad he cheers for locally and one of his expansion era teams of yesteryear. Marshall, ...