The San Jose Barracuda are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL) which will begin play for the 2015–16 season. Affiliated with the National Hockey League's San Jose Sharks, the Barracuda will share the SAP Center at San Jose with its parent club. The Barracuda are a relocation of the former Worcester Sharks AHL franchise, joining several other AHL franchises to form a new AHL Pacific Division in California.