Shark Week Reject Series

Welcome to the Shark Week Reject Series. I recently placed a bunch of caches around Folsom Lake to acknowledge the vast number of sharks out there and impart some knowledge about those sharks. I hid a lot more caches than got published. These hides were rejected for various reasons. Most of the rejected hides turned out to be a little too far from the posted coordinates in the geo-art. Some were just placed as extras in case some of the hides were blocked by puzzles I had not solved yet. Some were named for sharks or shark related ideas that just didn’t make the cut.  

San Jose Sharks

The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The franchise is owned by San Jose Sports & Entertainment Enterprises. Beginning play in the 1991–92 season, the Sharks initially played their home games at the Cow Palace, before they moved to their present home, now named SAP Center at San Jose, in 1993. The SAP Center is known locally as the Shark Tank.

The Sharks were founded in 1991 and were the first NHL franchise based in the San Francisco Bay Area since the California Golden Seals relocated to Cleveland in 1976. The Sharks have advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals once, losing to the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2016. They have won the Presidents' Trophy once, as the team with the league's best regular season record in the 2008–09 season. They have also won six division titles as a member of the Pacific Division since 1993.