Arizona Coyotes
The Arizona Coyotes are a hockey team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Coyotes started in the NHL as the Winnipeg Jets and were moved to the city in 1996. After the move, they were known as the Phoenix Coyotes until June 27, 2014.
The Coyotes previously played at the Gila River Arena (previously the Jobing.com Arena), in Glendale, a suburb of Phoenix. The arrangement of a separate arena (instead of sharing the existing arena home of the NBA's Phoenix Suns) and the ensuing bad lease terms (which Glendale has repeatedly refused to renegotiate) has resulted in lack of fan support and repeated threats to relocate; their failure to pay lease payments has resulted in the team losing their lease after the 2021-2022 season. This led to endless speculation as to where the team would play: possibilities include another arena in the Phoenix area, or relocation to Quebec City (which lost the Quebec Nordiques), Houston (which had a successful World Hockey League and minor league teams in the past, and is the largest media market not to have a hockey team; it would also give the Dallas Stars a natural rival), and Kansas City, among others. Ultimately the team signed an agreement to share an arena with the Arizona State University club hockey team; the 5,000 seat arena is by far the smallest venue of any professional franchise in not only the NHL but in all four of the major sports leagues.
They were previously partially owned by an all-time great of Hockey, Wayne Gretzky.
Roster
Goaltenders
- 30 - Ilya Bryzgalov
- 42 - Josh Tordjman
Defensemen
- 21 - David Hale
- 55 - Ed Jovanovski
- 45 - Dmitri Kalinen
- 2 - Ken Klee
- 4 - Zbynek Michalek
- 44 - Kurt Sauer
- 3 - Keith Yandle
Forwards
- 89 - Mikkel Boedker
- 14 - Nigel Dawes
- 19 - Shane Doan
- 17 - Todd Fedoruk
- 11 - Martin Hanzal
- 36 - Joakim Lindstrom
- 15 - Matthew Lombardi
- 18 - Enver Lisin
- 88 - Peter Mueller
- 26 - Joel Perreault
- 23 - Kevin Porter
- 16 - Petr Prucha
- 29 - Brandon Prust
- 28 - Steve Reinprecht
- 41 - Viktor Tikhonov
- 91 - Kyle Turris
- 8 - Scottie Upshall
- 34 - Daniel Winnik
Team's Official Website
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