Kip Miller scores first Sharks goal at SAP Center
On October 14, 1993, the Sharks christened their new home—then San Jose Arena—with an emotional opener against Calgary. Miller buried the first Sharks goal in building history.
1st
Goal at SAP Center
San Jose Sharks Game Tracker for Games You've Attended
Keep a permanent record of San Jose Sharks games you attended at SAP Center. Ticket Timeline is an NHL attendance tracker for Sharks fans who want SJS nights—and the hockey context around them—in one place.
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Game decided in a shootout
Tied through overtime, the game came down to one shooter at a time.
~7.9% of games
Are decided by shootout
You never know when it's the night
A hat trick. A milestone goal. A night that becomes part of team lore. Sharks fans who log every game are the ones who can prove they saw it.
Rare
Not every fan gets one of these live
Top 10 game of the season
Ticket Timeline ranks this as the #6 game of the season. You were one of 17,562 people there.
#6
Game of the regular season
Player scores a hat trick
Three goals, one player, one night—a feat only a handful of players record each season.
~7.6% of games
Feature a hat trick
San Jose Sharks Snapshot
- League
- NHL (National Hockey League)
- Home venue
- SAP Center
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Abbreviation
- SJS
Team Colors
Primary: #006272
Secondary: #000000
Home venues in Ticket Timeline's game data
Buildings the Sharks have called home in the attendance data Ticket Timeline uses—useful when an old ticket names a former arena or an earlier naming-rights label.
- Temporary home (inaugural seasons): Cow Palace (1991–1993)
- Current home: SAP Center (1993–present) — also known as San Jose Arena (1993–2001), Compaq Center (2001–2002), and HP Pavilion (2002–2013)
Coverage in Ticket Timeline's game data starts in 1991—a data-coverage year, not a franchise-founding claim.
If your ticket says Cow Palace, San Jose Arena, Compaq Center, or HP Pavilion, Ticket Timeline recognizes those venues as earlier names or locations for Sharks home games.
San Jose Sharks play home games at SAP Center in San Jose, CA, USA. Dates for those nights are anchored in Pacific time. The building list above is what Ticket Timeline uses when an older ticket names a former arena or an earlier name of the same building.
Rebuild your Sharks history
Use that timeline when dating a night: Cow Palace (1991–1993) is a rare venue from the Sharks' first two seasons while their permanent arena was being built; the permanent building opened in 1993 as San Jose Arena before being renamed Compaq Center (2001–2002), HP Pavilion (2002–2013), and SAP Center (2013–present)—but it's been the same building since 1993. Rebuilding Sharks attendance is usually a scavenger hunt: paper tickets and PDF confirmations, camera-roll scoreboard dates, calendar invites, season-ticket statements, and memory anchors (companions, rivals, life events, arena names on stubs). Work season by season; a partial list of attended games is enough to start matching opponents and arenas. When confirmations live in Gmail, Find Your Games walks through a read-only preview before anything is committed. For a shoebox of stubs, see what to do with old ticket stubs.
- Old paper tickets and digital PDFs
- Email receipts and order confirmations
- Camera-roll photos with visible dates or scoreboards
- Calendar entries and season-ticket records
- Memory anchors: opponents, companions, venues, life events
- Cow Palace nights (1991–1993)—inaugural temporary home
- San Jose Arena/Compaq/HP Pavilion nights (1993–2013)—earlier names of current building
- SAP Center nights (2013–present)—current home in Ticket Timeline's data
What your Sharks archive unlocks
Once you've logged Sharks games you attended, Ticket Timeline surfaces the attendance story—not a live scoreboard. Visited insights can include nights at Cow Palace (1991–1993) and the San Jose building through its naming eras (1993–present).
Attended
- Total games attended
- Your record when you attended
- Home and road games
Visited
- Arenas visited
- Nights at Cow Palace (1991–1993)
- Nights at SAP Center (1993–present)
Witnessed
- Players and teams seen
- Historic games witnessed
- Milestone moments witnessed
- Rare moments witnessed
- Achievements earned
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At SAP Center
Sharks home games today are at SAP Center in San Jose. Former homes and earlier printed names live in the venue timeline above—use those when an old ticket does not say SAP Center.
How Ticket Timeline connects your Sharks games
Add Sharks games from memory, import a spreadsheet, or scan ticket stubs. Ticket Timeline links each attended game to NHL context—teams, arenas, players, and notable moments—so nights at SAP Center and Cow Palace become a browsable San Jose Sharks archive. Primary focus on this page: home venue nights.
For fans who live at Sharks home arena nights
San Jose Sharks home games at SAP Center deserve a clean record. Ticket Timeline keeps those attended nights organized with matchup and arena context, and stays useful when you also add road games later.
A memory worth recovering
If your stub says Cow Palace, the game was from the Sharks' inaugural seasons (1991–1993), a rare treasure from when San Jose shared San Francisco's historic venue. If it says San Jose Arena, Compaq Center, or HP Pavilion, those are earlier names for the building now called SAP Center, in use since 1993. The venue name on your ticket helps narrow down the era and confirm which building you attended.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What can I track for San Jose Sharks games I've attended?
Ticket Timeline helps you track attended San Jose Sharks games with emphasis on nights at SAP Center: matchups, arena context, players, milestones, and notable moments from those seats.
How do I add Sharks games to my timeline?
Search for a Sharks matchup and date, import a spreadsheet, scan a ticket stub, or add games manually—including older nights at Cow Palace or other Sharks venues. Ticket Timeline connects each attended game to NHL context.
Can I track how many arenas I've visited for NHL?
Yes. Ticket Timeline helps you see arena progress across the Sharks and NHL games you've attended, so you can revisit which arenas you've been to and keep building that record over seasons.
Can I import years of Sharks history from a spreadsheet or Gmail?
Yes. You can import a spreadsheet of attended Sharks games, and Ticket Timeline also supports finding games from Gmail ticket confirmations with a read-only, preview-before-commit flow. That makes it easier to reconstruct years of history without retyping every date.
Does Ticket Timeline sell tickets?
No. Ticket Timeline does not sell tickets. It is an app for tracking NHL games you've already attended and exploring the story behind your fandom.
Can I keep a separate record of Sharks games at SAP Center?
Yes. Ticket Timeline lets you track attended San Jose Sharks games with venue context, so nights at SAP Center stay easy to revisit as part of your wider Bay Area attendance history.
Can I track San Jose Sharks games at SAP Center?
Yes. Ticket Timeline helps you track San Jose Sharks games you attended at SAP Center, then connect those nights to teams, players, arenas, and hockey memories.
Can I use Ticket Timeline for Sharks playoff games?
Yes. You can add regular-season and playoff Sharks games you attended so your hockey timeline reflects the nights that mattered most to you.
Start Building Your Sharks Timeline
Download Ticket Timeline to preserve San Jose Sharks games you've attended and keep your hockey home-venue history in one archive.
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