Maybe they'll wear their originals next season during some games for the 25th anniversary season. Most people know my feelings about the orange in the logo, so I won't harp on that, but yes original Pacific Teal-Blue, Black and Gray with the Sharks wearing something similar to their original uniforms. I am also kind of curious to see what a Sharks logo with blood in the logo would have looked like. We were thinking about having blood in the logo, but had it breaking the stick with its teeth instead. All sharks have five gills and our shark had three gills. We didn’t want a realistic shark to scare children. We also did some research with the California Academy of Science and Monterey Bay Aquarium.

We created depth with the Shark coming out of the triangle, which demonstrates Bay Area geography with San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. Matt Levine (for those that don't know - he helped with the choosing the name, colors and location of the what are now the San Jose Sharks) notes the triangle was for the three major cities in the Bay Area: But I guess that's referencing the team name Sharks, not necessarily the triangle of the logo. Still Mighty - Yeah I also thought it was primarily for the Red Triangle is for the great white sharks in that area. Around thirty-eight percent of recorded great white shark attacks on humans in the United States have occurred within the Red Triangle - eleven percent of the worldwide total.' 'The area has a very large population of marine mammals, such as elephant seals, harbor seals, sea otters, and sea lions, which are favored meals of great white sharks. Just a little thing, like the red eye in the Sabres' logo.

I'm not saying they should make red a huge part of their brand. At least there would be some justification for it. Around thirty-eight percent of recorded great white shark attacks on humans in the United States have occurred within the Red Triangle eleven percent of the worldwide total.'The lack of red in the triangle has always bugged me.I wonder if red would've been a better color to add instead of orange. It makes sense in theory but I think it would throw off the balance of the design, unless it was a small outline. That would be a good move but I don't know about adding it to the triangle. In the preliminary stages of the edge redesign, I'd heard they were planning on adding red but just to the eye. I wonder if red would've been a better color to add instead of orange. Around thirty-eight percent of recorded great white shark attacks on humans in the United States have occurred within the Red Triangle eleven percent of the worldwide total.'The lack of red in the triangle has always bugged me. Not realizing that it's actually now the biggest city in the area.įor the last time, it's for the Red Triangle: I think the more plausible answer has been brought up before, and the Sharks merely borrowed a design element.Īs for San Jose, I always thought the argument was the three major cities of the Bay Area (SF, Oakland, & San Jose), considering at the time of San Jose's expansion, nobody nationally really knew much about San Jose (except the way to there). Since San Jose knew it would take time to be contender, I'm not sure why they would design a logo with some kind of intent on another team regarding a Cup Final in another city. I don't those fans really cared about Minnesota hockey, just hoping a few of those players could help the Sharks early on. I never had the sense there was ever a strong connection between the Sharks and North Stars, especially from the San Jose perspective. Interesting theory, but I wonder why we didn't hear about it during the 90s, or even more recently. Since the Sharks in a sense are a North Stars spin off, the theory of the shark eating the penguin seems plausible because now shark has a more direct motive. During that offseason, the North Stars basically split in two teams-the Stars and the Sharks-with both teams then participating the subsequent expansion draft (see ). The Pens beat the North Stars in the Stanley Cup Finals to finish the 90-91 season. So this is less of a theory and more just canon, what happened. The Penguins won the Stanley Cup the year the Sharks entered the league so to emphasis how tough the new team was, the designers of the lower had the logo look like they had eaten the previous year champion.

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