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The Phoenix Coyotes currently based in Glendale, Arizona, just outside of Phoenix is a professional ice hockey team. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the NHL (National Hockey League). They used to play their home games at Jobing.com Arena.

They were founded in 1972 as the Winnipeg Jets of the WHA (World Hockey Association), joining the National Hockey League in 1979 and moving to the Phoenix in the year 1996.US Airways Center was their home ice (then known as America West Arena) for 7 years until 2003, when Jobing.com Arena opened.On May 5, 2009, the Coyotes was filed for bankruptcy and the team is now owned by the NHL.

They began to play as the Winnipeg Jets, one of the founding franchises in the WHA (World Hockey Association). They were the most successful team in the short-lived WHA, they won the Avco World Trophy, the league’s championship trophy, for three times and making the finals five out of the WHA’s seven seasons. It then became one of the 4 teams admitted to the National Hockey League as part of a merger that saw the financially-struggling WHA fold in 1979.

In December 2008, the media came to know that the Phoenix Coyotes were losing money at a high rate and were being funded by the NHL directly. NHL president Gary Bettman and vice-president Bill Daly minimized the media reports, but secretly the NHL had taken over operations of the Coyotes.

On March 27, 2010, the Coyotes clinched a playoff spot, which was their first playoff spot since the 2001-2002 season, and in the process, reached the 100 point mark for the first time in franchise history.Their first round opponent in the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs was the Detroit Red Wings.