Litter Box Cats, a Florida Panthers community

Despite not exactly being a hockey hotbed, the Bay Area got its first shot at NHL glory in the Great Expansion of 1967 he California Golden Seals struggled mightily during their nine seasons in Oakland, never finding success ton or off the ice.

After 25 years as a cozy six team loop, the NHL doubled in size for the 1967-68 season. A look back at the event that had an enormous impact on today's NHL and set the stage for the league's next set of lost teams, the "Great Expansion".