Because of the way the playoffs were structured for much of their Winnipeg run, they were all but assured of having to defeat either the Oilers or the Flames (or both) to reach the Conference Finals. However, they only won two playoff series largely due to being in the same division as the powerful Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames. They recovered fairly quickly, however, making the playoffs 11 times in the next 15 seasons. As a result, they finished last in the NHL during their first two seasons, including a nine-win season in 1980–81 that is still the worst in franchise history. The Jets lost most of their best players in the ensuing reclamation draft. As part of the terms under which the former WHA teams joined the NHL, the established NHL teams were allowed to reclaim most of the players that jumped to the upstart league. However, the club was never able to translate that success into the NHL after the merger. It then became one of the four teams admitted to the NHL as part of a merger that saw the financially-struggling WHA fold 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). History Winnipeg (1972-1996) Main article: Winnipeg Jets On May 5, 2009, the Coyotes filed for bankruptcy. Their home ice was at the US Airways Center (then known as America West Arena) for seven years until 2003, when Arena opened. The Coyotes were founded in 1972 as the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association (WHA), joining the NHL in 1979 and moving to Phoenix in 1996. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Phoenix Coyotes are a professional ice hockey team currently based in Glendale, Arizona, just outside of Phoenix.

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