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Winnipeg Jets
Conference Western
Division Central
Founded 1999
History Atlanta Thrashers
1999–2011
Winnipeg Jets
2011–present
Home arena Bell MTS Place
City Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Colours Polar night blue, aviator blue, silver, red, white
                        
Media TSN3
TSN Radio 1290
Owner(s) True North Sports & Entertainment
(Mark Chipman, executive chairman & governor)
General manager Kevin Cheveldayoff
Head coach Paul Maurice
Captain Blake Wheeler
Minor league affiliates Manitoba Moose (AHL)
Jacksonville Icemen (ECHL)
Stanley Cups 0
Conference championships 0
Presidents' Trophies 0
Division championships 0

The Winnipeg Jets are a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division of the Western Conference. The team is owned by True North Sports & Entertainment and plays its home games at Bell MTS Place.

The Jets began play as the Atlanta Thrashers in the 1999–2000 NHL season. True North Sports & Entertainment then bought the team in May 2011 and relocated the franchise from Atlanta to Winnipeg prior to the 2011–12 season (the first NHL franchise to relocate since the Hartford Whalers became the Carolina Hurricanes in 1997). The team was renamed the Jets after Winnipeg's original WHA/NHL team, which relocated after the 1995–96 season to become the Arizona Coyotes.

Images for kids

  • Dean Kennedy

    The franchise played in Winnipeg as the Jets from 1972 to 1996. They eventually joined the NHL in 1979.

  • Thrashers offensive zone

    The Thrashers take the puck into the offensive zone against the St. Louis Blues at Philips Arena on September 22, 2007.

  • Crowds in Winnipg gather for announcement of relocation of Thrashers NHL franchise to Manitoba

    Crowds gather at The Forks in Winnipeg on May 31, 2011, for the official announcement that the Atlanta Thrashers would relocate to Winnipeg pending the approval of the NHL's Board of Governors.

  • Winnipeg Jets first home victory celebration

    The team celebrate their first regulation win as the Jets at the MTS Centre on October 17, 2011.

  • Dustin Byfuglien (26076903930)

    Dustin Byfuglien with the Jets in the 2015–16 season. The Jets signed Byfuglien to a five-year extension in the 2015 off-season.

  • Blake Wheeler - Winnipeg Jets 2014

    Recording 323 assists as a member of the Jets, Blake Wheeler is the franchise's all-time assist leader.

  • TSN Regional Feeds

    The Winnipeg Jets broadcast area in orange and blue.


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