Winnipeg Jets

This article is about the current NHL franchise. For the previous NHL franchise with the same name, see Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996). For the former Western Hockey League team, see Winnipeg Monarchs (WHL).

Winnipeg Jets
2024–25 Winnipeg Jets season
ConferenceWestern
DivisionCentral
Founded1999
HistoryAtlanta Thrashers
1999–2011
Winnipeg Jets
2011–present
Home arenaCanada Life Centre
CityWinnipeg, Manitoba
Team coloursNavy blue, aviator blue, fighter grey, red, white[1][2][3][4]
         
MediaTSN3
680 CJOB
CJKR-FM (Power 97)
Owner(s)True North Sports & Entertainment
(Mark Chipman, executive chairman & governor) [5]
General managerKevin Cheveldayoff
Head coachScott Arniel
CaptainAdam Lowry
Minor league affiliatesManitoba Moose (AHL)
Norfolk Admirals (ECHL)
Stanley Cups0
Conference championships0
Presidents' Trophy0
Division championships0
Official websitewww.nhl.com/jets

The Winnipeg Jets are a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg. The Jets compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference. The team is owned by True North Sports & Entertainment, playing its home games at Canada Life Centre.[6][7]

The franchise was established as the Atlanta Thrashers on June 25, 1997, and began play in the 1999–2000 NHL season. True North Sports & Entertainment then bought the team in May 2011, and relocated the Jets to Winnipeg prior to the 2011–12 season, making them the first NHL franchise to relocate since the Hartford Whalers became the Carolina Hurricanes in 1997.[8][9][10] The team was renamed the Jets after Winnipeg's original WHA/NHL team, which relocated after the 1995–96 season due to financial issues to become the now-inactive Phoenix (later Arizona) Coyotes.

  1. ^ "Jersey Schedule". WinnipegJets.com. NHL Enterprises, L.P. Retrieved May 6, 2024.
  2. ^ Winnipeg Jets PR (September 14, 2018). "Winnipeg Jets, NHL® and adidas Unveil Third Jersey for the 2018-2019 NHL". WinnipegJets.com (Press release). NHL Enterprises, L.P. Retrieved May 6, 2024.
  3. ^ Winnipeg Jets PR (November 16, 2020). "Jets reveal Reverse Retro Alternate Jersey". WinnipegJets.com (Press release). NHL Enterprises, L.P. Retrieved May 6, 2024.
  4. ^ Clinton, Mitchell (January 27, 2023). "Behind the making of the South Asian Heritage Night logo". WinnipegJets.com. NHL Enterprises, L.P. Retrieved May 6, 2024. Some of Sheth's work can be seen inside the navy ring of the Jets logo, as motifs inspired by Henna patterning and Bandhani designs surround the traditional Jet and red maple leaf that fans are used to seeing.
  5. ^ "TNSE Front Office". WinnipegJets.com. NHL Enterprises, L.P. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
  6. ^ "Welcome to Canada Life Centre, home of the Winnipeg Jets". WinnipegJets.com (Press release). NHL Enterprises, L.P. June 15, 2021. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
  7. ^ "Winnipeg Jets' home arena to be renamed Canada Life Centre". CBC. June 15, 2021. Retrieved February 25, 2022.
  8. ^ Condor, Bob (May 31, 2011). "Winnipeg group has deal to buy, move Thrashers". National Hockey League. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
  9. ^ Ira Podell (June 21, 2011). "Winnipeg bound: NHL owners give green light for Atlanta Thrashers to move". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
  10. ^ Bechtel, Mark (January 30, 2012). "Everybody Loves Winnipeg: Sixteen years after it abandoned North America's coldest city—and its smallest market—for sunnier, sexier climes, the NHL has returned better than ever, giving loyal fans of the reincarnated Jets, and every Canadian, something to cheer about". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved May 25, 2018.