However, the club was never able to translate its WHA success into the NHL after the merger. It then became one of the four teams admitted to the NHL as part of a merger when the financially struggling WHA folded in 1979. The Jets were the most successful team in the short-lived WHA, winning the Avco World Trophy, the league's championship trophy, three times and making the finals five out of the WHA's seven seasons. The team began play as the Winnipeg Jets, one of the founding franchises in the World Hockey Association (WHA). They were originally members of the WHA before joining the NHL in 1979.

The franchise played in Winnipeg as the Jets from 1972 to 1996. As of 2023, they are the league's oldest NHL franchise to have never played in the Stanley Cup Finals.įranchise history Original Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996) Despite a difficult working relationship with the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, the Coyotes were able to secure a year-to-year arrangement to play in the facility until the end of the 2021–22 season. The NHL maintained control of the franchise until 2013 when they found new ownership willing to keep it in Arizona. The NHL took over the Phoenix Coyotes franchise in 2009, when then-owner Jerry Moyes gave up the team after filing for bankruptcy. The team was unstable under earlier ownership. Alex Meruelo became the majority owner on July 29, 2019. The franchise name changed to the Arizona Coyotes on June 27, 2014. The Jets moved to Phoenix on July 1, 1996, and were renamed the Phoenix Coyotes. They first played at America West Arena (now Footprint Center) in downtown Phoenix from 1996 to 2003 and then played at Glendale's Gila River Arena (now Desert Diamond Arena) from 2003 to 2022.įounded on December 27, 1971, as the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association (WHA), they were one of four franchises absorbed into the NHL after the WHA had ceased operations, joining on June 22, 1979. The Coyotes compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference and play at Mullett Arena in Tempe. The Arizona Coyotes are a professional ice hockey team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Process black, brick red, forest green, sand, sienna, purple

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