The HP Pavilion at San Jose, formerly known as Compaq Center at San Jose and San Jose Arena is an indoor arena located at 525 West Santa Clara Street in San Jose, California. The arena is also commonly called The Shark Tank or The Tank, both of which come from its primary tenant, the San Jose Sharks. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... The HP Pavilion in San Jose, California, home of the San Jose Sharks and commonly known as the Shark Tank. ... For other uses, see San José. Nickname: Location of San Jose within Santa Clara County, California. ... For other uses, see San José. Nickname: Location of San Jose within Santa Clara County, California. ... USD redirects here. ... The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. ... NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ... Conference American Division Western Year founded 1995 Home arena HP Pavilion at San Jose City, State San Jose, California Head Coach Darren Arbet ArenaBowl championships 3: 2002, 2004, 2007 Conference titles 2007 Division titles 7: 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 Wild Card berths 4: 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005... The Arena Football League (AFL) was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. ... The Golden State Warriors are a professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. ... The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... The San Jose Stealth are a member of the National Lacrosse League, a professional sports league in North America. ... The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is the professional league of mens indoor lacrosse in North America. ... San Jose Grizzlies were a professional indoor soccer team based in San Jose, California The team was founded on November 24, 1993 as a member of the Continental Indoor Soccer League. ... CISL may mean: Continental Indoor Soccer League CISL, a radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... The San Jose Rhinos were a team in Roller Hockey International from 1994-97. ... Roller Hockey International or RHI was an inline hockey league in North America between 1993-97 and 1999. ... The following is a list of indoor arenas. ... For other uses, see San José. Nickname: Location of San Jose within Santa Clara County, California. ... The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. ...

Tenants

HP Pavilion at San Jose houses the following sports teams: the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League, the San Jose SaberCats of the Arena Football League and the San Jose Stealth of the National Lacrosse League. It is also the venue for the annual SAP Open men's tennis tournament. The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. ... NHL redirects here. ... Conference American Division Western Year founded 1995 Home arena HP Pavilion at San Jose City, State San Jose, California Head Coach Darren Arbet ArenaBowl championships 3: 2002, 2004, 2007 Conference titles 2007 Division titles 7: 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 Wild Card berths 4: 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005... The Arena Football League (AFL) was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. ... The San Jose Stealth are a member of the National Lacrosse League, a professional sports league in North America. ... NLL redirects here. ... The SAP Open is a tennis tournament held each year in San Jose, California. ...

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 and San Jose Grizzlies of the CISL. The Golden State Warriors are a professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. ... The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... The Oakland Arena is an indoor arena in Oakland, California. ... The San Jose Rhinos were a team in Roller Hockey International from 1994-97. ... Roller Hockey International or RHI was an inline hockey league in North America between 1993-97 and 1999. ... San Jose Grizzlies were a professional indoor soccer team based in San Jose, California The team was founded on November 24, 1993 as a member of the Continental Indoor Soccer League. ... The Continental Indoor Soccer League was an indoor soccer league that played from 1993 to 1997. ...

Naming Rights

The arena opened in 1993 as the San Jose Arena. In 2001, 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 the HP Pavilion (as opposed to HP Center or HP Arena) after one of their computer models. Compaq Computer Corporation is an American personal computer company founded in 1982, and now a brand name of Hewlett-Packard. ... The Summit stands among the high-rise office buildings of Greenway Plaza, ca 1995 The Compaq Center, originally named The Summit, was a multi-purpose sports arena in Houston, Texas. ... Houston redirects here. ...

Other events

It hosts an average of 190 events a year, including many non-sporting events. In 2006, the HP Pavilion sold the most tickets to non-sporting events of any venue in the Western United States, and the fourth highest total in the world, after Madison Square Garden in New York City, the Manchester Evening News Arena in Manchester, and the Air Canada Center in Toronto.^[1] Regional definitions vary from source to source. ... Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, and known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The Manchester Evening News Arena or M.E.N. Arena (commonly referred to as just The M.E.N. or simply Manchester Arena) is a large indoor arena in Manchester, England. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... The Air Canada Centre is an arena at 40 Bay Street, in downtown Toronto, Ontario. ...

The arena hosts concerts by major acts such as Paul McCartney, Bon Jovi, U2, Miley Cyrus, Ashley Tisdale, The Cheetah Girls, The Smashing Pumpkins, Bryan Adams, Blue Man Group, Panic at the Disco, Metallica, Kanye West, Shakira, Mariah Carey, Ricky Martin, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Barbra Streisand, Madonna, RBD, Cher, The Spice Girls, NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Janet Jackson, Maná, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Slipknot , Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, as well as numerous World Wrestling Entertainment events. Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, entrepreneur, painter, record producer, film producer, and animal-rights activist. ... Bon Jovi is a hard rock band originating from Sayreville, New Jersey. ... This article is about the Irish rock band. ... Miley Cyrus (born Destiny Hope Cyrus[1] on November 23, 1992 in Franklin, Tennessee) is an American actress and singer. ... Ashley Michelle Tisdale (born July 2, 1985)[1] is an American actress and singer. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago in 1988. ... For other persons of the same name, see Brian Adams. ... For the novel by Kin Platt, see The Blue Man. ... Panic! At The Disco is an Alternative Rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada. ... Metallica is a Grammy Award-winning American heavy metal/thrash metal band formed in 1981[1] and has become one of the most commercially successful musical acts of recent decades. ... Kanye Omari West (pronounced /kÉ‘njÉ›j/) (born June 8, 1977) is an American record producer and rapper who rose to fame in the mid 2000s. ... This article is about the musician. ... This article is about the singer. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981[1]), sometimes known as JT, is an American pop and R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. ... This article is about the singer. ... Barbara Joan Streisand (pronounced STRY-sand, IPA: ; born April 24, 1942) is a two time Academy Award-winning American singer and film and theatre actress. ... This article is about the American entertainer. ... For other uses, see RBD (disambiguation). ... This article is about the entertainer. ... The Spice Girls were a British vocal girl band. ... *NSYNC is a five-part pop music vocal group, specifically a boy band, formed in Orlando, Florida, USA. The group members are James Lance Bass, Joshua Scott Chasez (JC), Joseph Anthony Fatone Junior (Joey), Christopher Alan Kirkpatrick (Chris), and Justin Randall Timberlake. ... This article is about the band. ... This article is about the singer. ... Maná is a popular Latin American Mexican rock band from Guadalajara whose career has spanned almost three decades. ... This article is about the musician. ... Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is a Grammy Award-winning[1] American pop singer, dancer, actress, author and songwriter. ... Slipknot (sometimes typeset as SlipKnoT to fit their logo) is a Grammy winning American metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. ... For the meteorologist of The Weather Channel, see The Weather Channel (United States). ... For other people named Marc Anthony or Mark Anthony, see Mark Anthony. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ...

HP Pavilion has also played host 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, and the Dew Action Sports Tour. Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ... NCAA redirects here. ... This article is about the sport. ... Disambiguation: March Madness comes from the phrase Mad as a March Hare. In England, the phrase March Madness may refer to wasteful spending at the end of a budget year. ... The Pacific Ten Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. ... The Dew Action Sports Tour is an extreme sports tour francise that started in 2005. ...

Planned improvements

It was announced in late April 2007 that the HP Pavilion at San Jose would be receiving several building improvements, including a new scoreboard similar to that of the TD Banknorth Garden, home of the Boston Bruins of the NHL.^[2] TD Banknorth Garden is a sports arena in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. ...

Notable events hosted at HP Pavilion

• January 18-21, 1996 - 1996 United States Figure Skating Championships
• January 18, 1997 - 47th National Hockey League All-Star Game
• January 18, 1998 - WWE's Royal Rumble
• August 19, 2001 - WWE's SummerSlam - remembered as the night The Rock defeated Booker T to win the WCW Championship.
• August 18, 2002 - ArenaBowl XVI - The San Jose SaberCats defeated the Arizona Rattlers 52-14 to claim their first Arena Football League title.
• 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.[2].
• March, 2007 - 2007 NCAA Men's Basketball West Regional Final. (UCLA vs. Kansas)
• July 22, 2007 - WWE's The Great American Bash
• August 15-18, 2007 - 2007 USA Gymnastics Visa Championships

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Fictitious events

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References

1. ^ "2006 Year End Ticket Sales (pdf)", Pollstar, January 17, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-14. 
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External links

• HP Pavilion Website
• Architect's Website

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