HP Pavilion
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| HP Pavilion | |
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| Shark Tank, San Jose Arena | |
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| Location | 525 West Santa Clara Street, San Jose, California 95113 |
| Broke ground | 1991 |
| Opened | 1993 |
| Owner | City of San Jose |
| Operator | City of San Jose |
| Surface | Ice (Wood or other flooring can be overlaid) |
| Construction cost | $162.5 million USD |
| Architect | Sink Combs Dethlefs Huber, Hunt & Nichols |
| Former names | |
| San Jose Arena (1993-2001) Compaq Center at San Jose (2001-2002) |
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| Tenants | |
| San Jose Sharks (NHL) (1993-present) San Jose Sabercats (AFL) (1995-present) Golden State Warriors (NBA) (1996-1997) San Jose Stealth (NLL) (2003-present) San Jose Grizzlies (CISL) (1994-1995) San Jose Rhinos (RHI) (1994-1997) |
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| Capacity | |
| Basketball: 18,500 Multi-purpose: 16,000-20,000 Hockey: 17,496 |
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The HP Pavilion, commonly called The Shark Tank or just The Tank after its primary tenant or less often as San Jose Arena after its former name, is an indoor arena located at 525 West Santa Clara Street in San Jose, California.
Named after the computer company Hewlett-Packard in a naming rights arrangement, the HP Pavilion houses the following sports teams:
- NHL - Ice Hockey - San Jose Sharks
- NLL - Lacrosse - San Jose Stealth
- AFL - Arena Football - San Jose SaberCats
The arena opened in 1993 as the San Jose Arena. Before the building changed its original name because of corporate sponsorship, Sharks radio play-by-play broadcaster Dan Rusanowsky always referred to it as the "spectacular" San Jose Arena. Later, naming rights were sold to Compaq, and the facility became Compaq Center at San Jose; the geographic identifier was needed because at the time, there was a Compaq Center in Houston. After HP purchased Compaq in 2002, the company chose to name the arena after its product. (The former arena in Houston is now a church.)
The facility has also been home to the Golden State Warriors of the NBA during reconstruction of the Oakland Coliseum Arena, and the defunct San Jose Rhinos of RHI, San Jose Grizzlies of the CISL, and the San Jose Lasers of the ABL. It has also been used for other sporting events, such as the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the NCAA Basketball tournament (known as March Madness), the Pac-10 women's basketball championship, the Dew Action Sports Tour, and the SAP Open men's tennis tournament.
The arena is one of the most active NHL venues. Of the current arenas in the league, "The Tank" is one of the more intimate and in the opinion of Dan Rusanowsky, one of the noisiest hockey venues since the Chicago Stadium. It hosts an average of 190 events a year, including many non-sporting events. For the nine-month period ending September 30, 2004, the HP Pavilion sold the most tickets to non-sporting events of any venue in the United States, and the third highest in the world.
The arena has also hosted its share of wrestling events, in particular WWE. The Pavilion hosted the 1998 Royal Rumble and in 2001 hosted WWE's SummerSlam. In 2007, it will host WWE's The Great American Bash.
The arena has also hosted concerts by major acts such as Paul McCartney, The Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica, and Slipknot.
[edit] Notable events hosted at HP Pavilion
- January 18, 1997 - 47th National Hockey League All-Star Game
- January 18, 1998 - WWF Royal Rumble
- August 19, 2001 - WWF SummerSlam - remembered as the night The Rock defeated Booker T to win the WCW Championship.
- March 10, 2006 - Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Gracie - HP Pavilion hosted the largest recorded audience for a mixed martial arts event. Attendance was reported at 18,265 people. The prior record was 14,562.[1].
- March, 2006 - 2007 NCAA Men's Basketball West Regional Final.
[edit] Fictitious Events
- 2006 Democratic National Convention in the television series The West Wing.
- A few scenes in the movie EdTV.
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| Preceded by Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena 1971–1996 |
Home of the Golden State Warriors 1996–1997 |
Succeeded by The Arena in Oakland 1997–present |
| Preceded by Cow Palace 1991–1993 |
Home of the San Jose Sharks 1993–present |
Succeeded by current |
| Current arenas in the Arena Football League |
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| American Conference | National Conference | |
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| Allstate Arena | EnergySolutions Arena | HP Pavilion | Nashville Arena | Orleans Arena | Pepsi Center | Staples Center | US Airways Center | Van Andel Arena | American Airlines Center | Amway Arena | Frank Erwin Center | Kemper Arena | Nassau Coliseum | Nationwide Arena | New Orleans Arena | Philips Arena | St. Pete Times Forum | Wachovia Center1 | Wachovia Spectrum2 | |
| 1The Philadelphia Soul play Sunday home games at the Wachovia Center. 2The Philadelphia Soul play Saturday home games at the Wachovia Spectrum. |
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| Current arenas in the National Lacrosse League | ||
| Eastern Division | Western Division | |
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| Air Canada Centre | Blue Cross Arena | HSBC Arena | Madison Square Garden1 | Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum2 | Sears Centre | Wachovia Center | Xcel Energy Center | HP Pavilion | Jobing.com Arena | Pengrowth Saddledome | Pepsi Center | Rexall Place | Rose Garden Arena | |
| 1The New York Titans play four of their home games at Madison Square Garden. 2The New York Titans play four of their home games at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. |
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Categories: Sports venues in California | Sports venues in the San Francisco Bay Area | 1993 establishments | Arena football venues | Indoor arenas in the United States | Indoor ice hockey venues in the United States | Indoor lacrosse venues in the United States | Sports in San Jose, California | San Jose Sharks | National Hockey League venues
