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This article is about the first NHL team known as the Winnipeg Jets. For the current NHL team with the same name, see Winnipeg Jets. For the former Western Hockey League team, see Winnipeg Monarchs (WHL).

Winnipeg Jets
Founded1972
HistoryWinnipeg Jets
1972–1979 (WHA)
1979–1996 (NHL)
Phoenix Coyotes
1996–2014
Arizona Coyotes
2014–2024
Home arenaWinnipeg Arena
CityWinnipeg, Manitoba
Team coloursBlue, red, white
     
Stanley Cups0
Avco World Trophy3 (1975–76, 1977–78, 1978–79)
Conference championships0
Presidents' Trophy0
Division championships3 (1972–73, 1975–76, 1977–78)

The Winnipeg Jets were a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg. They began play in the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1972. The club joined the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1979 after the NHL merged with the WHA. Due to mounting financial troubles, in 1996 the franchise moved to Phoenix, Arizona and became the Phoenix Coyotes (the former name of the now inactive Arizona Coyotes). The team played their home games at Winnipeg Arena.

History

The WHA years (1972–1979)

On December 27, 1971, Winnipeg was granted one of the founding franchises in the WHA. The original owner was Ben Hatskin, a local figure who made his wealth in cardboard shipping containers.[1] The team took their name from the Winnipeg Jets of the Western Canada Hockey League.[2]

The Jets' first signing was Norm Beaudin (earning the player the moniker of "the Original Jet"), while the first major signing was Bobby Hull. Hull's acquisition, partially financed by the rest of the WHA's teams, gave the league instant credibility and paved the way for other NHL stars to bolt to the upstart league.

The Jets were the first North American club to seriously explore Europe as a source of hockey talent. Winnipeg's fortunes were bolstered by acquisitions such as Swedish forwards Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson, who starred with Hull on the WHA's most famous and successful forward line (nicknamed "the Hot Line"), and defenceman Lars-Erik Sjoberg, who would serve as the team's captain and win accolades as the WHA's best defenceman. Behind these players and other European stars such as Willy Lindstrom, Kent Nilsson, Veli-Pekka Ketola, leavened by players such as Peter Sullivan, Norm Beaudin and goaltender Joe Daley, the Jets were the most successful team in the short-lived WHA. The team made the finals in five of the WHA's seven seasons, winning the Avco World Trophy three times, including in the league's final season against Wayne Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers.

Another notable accomplishment was the Jets' 5–3 victory over the Soviet National team on January 5, 1978.[3]

In the WHA's last season, Kent Nilsson scored 107 points, while Morris Lukowich had 65 goals, and Peter Sullivan had 46 goals and 86 points. During the Avco Cup Finals, Gary Smith gave up the last goal in WHA history to Dave Semenko in a 7–3 Jets win.[4]

Career leaders (WHA)

The 1976, 1978 and 1979 Avco Cup winning Winnipeg Jets were inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame in the team category.

The NHL years (1979–1996)

By 1978–79, the vast majority of the WHA's teams had folded, but the Jets were still going strong. After the season, the Jets were absorbed into the NHL along with the Nordiques, Oilers and Hartford Whalers. Pre-merger inter-league exhibitions had shown that the 1978–79 WHA Jets were the competitive equal of most NHL teams, with the possible exceptions of the three-time defending Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens and the rising New York Islanders.

However, the Jets had to pay a very high price for a berth in the more established league. They had to give up three of their top six scorers – the core of the last WHA champion – in a reclamation draft. They were also forced to draft 18th out of 21 teams. In the draft, they opted to protect defenceman Scott Campbell, who had shown a good deal of promise in the last WHA season. However, Campbell suffered from chronic asthma that was only exacerbated by Winnipeg's frigid weather. The asthma drove him out of the league entirely by 1982.

Upon entering the NHL, the Jets were based in the Smythe Division of the Campbell Conference. However, with a decimated roster, the Jets finished dead last in the league for their first two seasons in the NHL, including a horrendous nine-win season in 1980–81 that still ranks as the worst in Jets/Coyotes history. This stands in marked contrast to the other 1979 Avco Cup finalist, the Oilers, who went on to dominate the league during the second half of the 1980s.

The Jets' first two wretched NHL seasons did net them high draft picks; in the 1980 draft they picked Dave Babych second overall and in 1981 they drafted future Hall of Fame member Dale Hawerchuk first overall. The team developed a solid core of players by the mid-1980s, with Hawerchuk, Thomas Steen, Paul MacLean, Randy Carlyle, Laurie Boschman, Doug Smail, and David Ellett providing a strong nucleus. Also in 1981, a league-wide realignment placed the Jets with the league's other Central Time Zone teams in the Norris Division, which over the course of the decade would become the weakest division in the league.

Led by Hawerchuk, Steen, Babych and Carlyle, the Jets returned to respectability fairly quickly, and made the playoffs 11 times in the next 15 years. However, regular-season success did not transfer over into the playoffs. This was because after just one season in the Norris, the relocation of the Colorado Rockies to New Jersey compelled Winnipeg to return to the more competitive Smythe Division along with the Oilers and Calgary Flames – by some accounts, the two best teams in the league during the second half of the 1980s. Due to the way the playoffs were structured at the time, whenever the Jets made the playoffs, they faced the near-certainty of having to beat either the Oilers or the Flames (or both) to get to the Campbell Conference Finals. At the time, the top four teams in each division made the playoffs, with the regular-season division winner playing against the fourth-place team and the regular-season runner-up playing the third-place team in the division semifinals. The division semifinal winners advanced to the division finals, and the two division final winners would meet in the conference finals.

For example, in 1984–85, they finished with the fourth-best record in the entire league (behind only Philadelphia, Edmonton and Washington). They also notched 96 points, which would remain the franchise's best as an NHL team until the 2009–10 Coyotes racked up the franchise's second 100-point season (and first as an NHL team). However, they finished second in the Smythe behind the Oilers. While they managed to dispatch the Flames (with the league's fifth-best record) in four games in the best-of-five division semifinal, they were swept by the eventual Stanley Cup champion Oilers in the division final. In fact, Winnipeg and Edmonton played each other in the playoffs six times between 1983 and 1990. The Oilers not only won every series, but also held the Jets to only four total victories. Five times (1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, and 1990), the Oilers went on to win the Stanley Cup. The Jets won only one more playoff series, in 1987 (defeating Calgary in the division semifinal before losing to Edmonton in the division final). It was not until the 1993–94 season that further expansion and re-alignment permitted the original Jets to return to the re-branded Central Division (the former Norris Division) of the Western Conference. By this time however, the Central was at least the competitive equal of the re-named Pacific Division and the strict division-based playoff bracket had been abandoned.

Demise and relocation

As the NHL expanded in the United States and free agency rules were liberalized, operating costs and salaries grew rapidly; players had the leverage to demand being paid in U.S. dollars league-wide. Until about the early 1990s, Canadian teams were able to pay their players in Canadian dollars, with the exceptions being contracts acquired in trades from U.S. teams. However, since the Canadian teams still collected most of their revenue in Canadian dollars, having to pay players in U.S. dollars proved to be a serious drain on finances given the declining value of the Canadian dollar. For most of their NHL tenure, Winnipeg was the league's second-smallest market, and was set to become the smallest market after the Quebec Nordiques moved to Denver as the Colorado Avalanche in 1995–96. Despite a loyal fan following, serious doubts were raised about whether Winnipeg could continue to support an NHL team. Additionally, their home arena, Winnipeg Arena, was over 40 years old, had no luxury suites, and numerous obstructed-view seats.

Faced with mounting losses, Jets owner Barry Shenkarow agreed to sell the team to American businessmen Steven Gluckstern and Richard Burke for $65 million.[5] They planned to move the team to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul region (which had lost the Minnesota North Stars to Dallas in 1993.[6] In response, a local consortium called the Spirit of Manitoba was assembled. While they persuaded Shenkarow to delay the proposed sale to American interests long enough that the Jets ultimately remained in Winnipeg for the 1995–96 season, it eventually became apparent that the Spirit of Manitoba consortium was far too undercapitalized to purchase the franchise and underwrite expected losses while a proposed new arena was built.[6]

Meanwhile, Gluckstern and Burke failed to reach an agreement with the City of Minneapolis to share the Target Center with the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves. They purchased the team nevertheless, but with no suitable alternate venues in the Twin Cities area, the Jets' new owners reached an agreement with Jerry Colangelo, owner of the NBA's Phoenix Suns, to move the team to Phoenix and become the Phoenix Coyotes. The Jets managed to qualify for the playoffs in their final season in Winnipeg, and played their last game on April 28, 1996, a home playoff loss to the Detroit Red Wings by a score of 4–1. Norm Maciver scored the last goal in Jets history.[7]

Aftermath

Winnipeg was not left without a professional ice hockey team for the 1996–97 season as the International Hockey League's Minnesota Moose moved to Winnipeg to become the Manitoba Moose a few months after the Jets left town.

The NHL ultimately returned to Winnipeg 15 years later, with the Atlanta Thrashers relocating to become the second incarnation of the Jets franchise which is owned by True North Sports & Entertainment. Prior to this, True North submitted a series of bids for the financially-troubled Coyotes in October 2009, which were taken seriously enough that the league drew up a tentative schedule with Winnipeg in place of Phoenix.[8] The NHL shelved the bid after securing a large subsidy from the Coyotes' municipal government. As True North's low-key approach was praised by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, this placed True North in a favorable position once question of the Thrashers' relocation came up.[9]

The new Jets, despite reclaiming the name and subsequently the original franchise's logos, retained the Thrashers franchise records rather than the records of the original Jets.

Dean Kennedy played with the Jets from 1991 to 1994

During their history, the Jets retired two numbers: Bobby Hull's #9 and Thomas Steen's #25. The Coyotes have continued to honor those numbers, and hang their banners in the Jets' old blue-red-white colour scheme. Dale Hawerchuk's No. 10 was added in 2006, in the Coyotes' current sand-red-black scheme. Another tradition that was retained when the franchise moved to Phoenix was the "whiteout", in which fans wore all white to home playoff games.

Shane Doan, drafted seventh overall by the Jets in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft prior to their last season in Winnipeg, and who played his rookie season in Winnipeg, was the last original Jet to still be active in the NHL (and to still be with the franchise) upon his retirement in 2017. The only other former original Jet playing professionally by that time was Deron Quint, who played in the German DEL in Germany until 2017.

The current Winnipeg Jets have acknowledged the original Jets' history on a number of occasions. The original franchise's division and Avco Cup championships currently hang atop the rafters of Canada Life Centre, as are the honoured numbers of the original Jets who were inducted into the current Jets' Hall of Fame. They have also worn throwback uniforms of the original Jets on a few occasions, and brought back the Whiteout tradition in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The new franchise acquired the trademarks to the name and logo of the original Jets from the NHL when it moved to Winnipeg – at the time, the league directly owned the Coyotes and thus controlled the Jets' trademarks. However, the franchise's records still belong to the Coyotes.

In April 2024, after years of instability, the Coyotes suspended operations, with their assets (including players and hockey operations staff) being transferred to the new Utah Hockey Club. Unlike the Thrashers' relocation to Winnipeg (which saw all records transferred), the Coyotes entered inactivity, with their intellectual property remaining in Phoenix. Coyotes owner Alex Meruelo was granted a five-year window to construct a new arena in the Phoenix area, upon which automatic expansion would have been triggered to "re-activate" the Coyotes.[10] However, in late June, Meruelo opted to discontinue his efforts to build an arena and re-activate the team, ceding the Coyotes intellectual property back to the NHL, and leaving the fate of the Jets/Coyotes records uncertain.[11]

Uniforms

The Jets debuted in the WHA wearing blue and white uniforms with red trim. White uniforms featured a blue shoulder yoke, blue numbers and blue-white-red-white-blue waist, sock and sleeve stripes. The blue uniforms were the inverse of their white counterparts minus the contrasting yoke and used red numbers. In the franchise's first season, the uniforms featured the futuristic "Jets" wordmark in front along with red or white player nameplates. Starting in 1974, the Jets donned their "classic" look, ditching the contrast-colour nameplates and unveiling their famous roundel logo. In 1977 the Jets added a white shoulder yoke on the blue uniform, and the following season, switched from red to blue pants.

Upon moving to the NHL in 1979, the Jets unveiled new uniforms. Then-general manager John Ferguson Sr. had been derided for changing the classic New York Rangers uniforms during the late 1970s, so he brought most elements of that design to the Jets. Both uniforms featured a thick shoulder stripe that extended through the sleeves, along with another thick stripe on the waist. In addition, the blue uniforms now featured white numbers with red trim and a white inverse of the team's logo in front. In 1987, the Jets added a "Goals for Kids" patch which remained a prominent figure on the uniforms until the relocation.

In 1990, the Jets unveiled their final uniform design, featuring the updated crest in front and contrasting sleeve and waist stripes. They also switched back to red pants.

The current incarnation of the Winnipeg Jets employs a different uniform design and logo, although they occasionally use the "old" Jets uniform as an alternate jersey. For the 2021 season, a "Reverse Retro" jersey was introduced in collaboration with Adidas. The jersey was designed to emulate the original Jets' 1979–90 look but used colors of the current Jets.[12] Before the 2021–22 season, the blue WHA-era uniform the modern-day Jets wore in the 2019 Heritage Classic became the team's third jersey.[13] A second "Reverse Retro" jersey, this time a recoloured version of the 1990–96 Jets white uniform, was released in the 2022–23 season.[14]

Winnipeg White Out

The Winnipeg White Out is a hockey tradition that dates back to 1987 when fans were asked to wear white clothing to home playoff games, creating a very intimidating effect and atmosphere. It was created as a response to the "C of Red" created by fans of the Calgary Flames, whom the home-town Jets were facing in the first round of the 1987 Stanley Cup playoffs.[15] The Jets eliminated the Flames in six games, and fans wore white for every home playoff game thereafter. Fans dubbed it the "White Out" which is a prairie term for a winter snow storm. Marketing for the team during the playoff referred to the "charge of the white brigade." In later years, marketing referred to the White Out as "White Noise."

Fans of the AHL franchise Manitoba Moose also continued this tradition when the team briefly relocated to St. John's, Newfoundland, as the St. John's IceCaps, as did fans of the "IceCap's White Out"[16] and "Coyotes White Out",[17] respectively. When the Thrashers moved to Winnipeg as the second incarnation of the Jets, they brought back the White Out tradition for all playoff appearances for the Jets.

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties minutes

WHA era

Season Team season GP W L T Pts GF GA PIM Finish Playoffs
1972–73 1972–73 78 43 31 4 90 285 249 757 1st, Western Won quarterfinals (Fighting Saints) 4–1
Won semifinals (Aeros) 4–0
Lost Avco Cup Finals (Whalers) 4–1
1973–74 1973–74 78 34 39 5 73 264 296 673 4th, Western Lost quarterfinals (Aeros) 4–0
1974–75 1974–75 78 38 35 5 81 322 293 869 3rd, Canadian Did not qualify
1975–76 1975–76 81 52 27 2 106 345 254 940 1st, Canadian Won quarterfinals (Oilers) 4–0
Won semifinals (Cowboys) 4–1
Won Avco Cup Finals (Aeros) 4–0
1976–77 1976–77 80 46 32 2 94 366 291 991 2nd, Western Won quarterfinals (Mariners) 4–3
Won semifinals (Aeros) 4–2
Lost Avco Cup Finals (Nordiques) 4–3
1977–78 1977–78 80 50 28 2 102 381 270 988 1st, WHA Won semifinals (Bulls) 4–1
Won Avco Cup Finals (Whalers) 4–0
1978–79 1978–79 80 39 35 6 84 307 306 1342 3rd, WHA Won semifinals (Nordiques) 4–0
Won Avco Cup Finals (Oilers) 4–2
WHA totals 555 302 227 26 630 2,270 1,958 6,560 6 playoff appearances

NHL era

Key of terms and abbreviations
Term or abbreviation Definition
Finish Final position in division or league standings
GP Number of games played
W Number of wins
L Number of losses
T Number of ties
Pts Number of points
GF Goals for (goals scored by the Jets)
GA Goals against (goals scored by the Jets' opponents)
— Does not apply
Season Team season Conference Division Regular season[18] Postseason[19]
Finish GP W L T Pts GF GA GP W L GF GA Result
1979–80 1979–80 Campbell Smythe 5th 80 20 49 11 51 214 314 Did not qualify
1980–81 1980–81 Campbell Smythe 5th 80 9 57 14 32 246 400 Did not qualify
1981–82 1981–82 Campbell Norris 2nd 80 33 33 14 80 319 332 4 1 3 13 20 Lost in division semifinals, 1–3 (Blues)
1982–83 1982–83 Campbell Smythe 4th 80 33 39 8 74 311 333 3 0 3 9 14 Lost in division semifinals, 0–3 (Oilers)
1983–84 1983–84 Campbell Smythe 4th 80 31 38 11 73 340 374 3 0 3 7 18 Lost in division semifinals, 0–3 (Oilers)
1984–85 1984–85 Campbell Smythe 2nd 80 43 27 10 96 358 332 8 3 5 26 35 Won in division semifinals, 3–1 (Flames)
Lost in division finals, 0–4 (Oilers)
1985–86 1985–86 Campbell Smythe 3rd 80 26 47 7 59 295 372 3 0 3 8 15 Lost in division semifinals, 0–3 (Flames)
1986–87 1986–87 Campbell Smythe 3rd 80 40 32 8 88 279 310 10 4 6 31 32 Won in division semifinals, 4–2 (Flames)
Lost in division finals, 0–4 (Oilers)
1987–88 1987–88 Campbell Smythe 3rd 80 33 36 11 77 292 310 5 1 4 17 25 Lost in division semifinals, 1–4 (Oilers)
1988–89 1988–89 Campbell Smythe 5th 80 26 42 12 64 300 355 Did not qualify
1989–90 1989–90 Campbell Smythe 3rd 80 37 32 11 85 298 290 7 3 4 22 24 Lost in division semifinals, 3–4 (Oilers)
1990–91 1990–91 Campbell Smythe 5th 80 26 43 11 63 260 288 Did not qualify
1991–92 1991–92 Campbell Smythe 4th 80 33 32 15 81 251 244 7 3 4 17 29 Lost in division semifinals, 3–4 (Canucks)
1992–93 1992–93 Campbell Smythe 4th 84 40 37 7 87 322 320 6 2 4 17 21 Lost in division semifinals, 2–4 (Canucks)
1993–94 1993–94 Western Central 6th 84 24 51 9 57 245 344 Did not qualify
1994–951 1994–95 Western Central 6th 48 16 25 7 39 157 177 Did not qualify
1995–96 1995–96 Western Central 5th 82 36 40 6 78 275 291 6 2 4 10 20 Lost in conference quarterfinals, 2–4 (Red Wings)
Relocated to Phoenix
Totals[20] 1,338 506 660 172 1,184 4,762 5,347 62 19 43 178 255 11 playoff appearances

Notes:

Notable players

Team captains

Note: This list includes Jets captains from both the NHL and WHA.

First-round draft picks

Note: This list includes draft picks from both the NHL and WHA.

Hall of Famers

Retired numbers

The original Winnipeg Jets retired two numbers in their history. When the Jets relocated to Arizona, the banners of these players also made the move, and these numbers originally remain retired with the Arizona Coyotes, in Jets' colors. Beginning with the 2014–15 season, those numbers were unretired and brought back to circulation; they were still inducted as part of the Arizona Coyotes Ring of Honor. After the move to Arizona, number 10 was inducted in honor of Dale Hawerchuk, number 7 was inducted for Keith Tkachuk, and number 27 was inducted for Teppo Numminen. Shane Doan's number 19 was the only number officially retired by the Coyotes.

The current Winnipeg Jets (formerly Atlanta Thrashers) also honoured both numbers in the Winnipeg Jets Hall of Fame.

Winnipeg Jets retired numbers
No. Player Position Career No. retirement
91 Bobby Hull LW 1972–1980 February 19, 1989
25 Thomas Steen RW 1981–1995 May 6, 1995

Notes:

  • 1 Bobby Hull's number was temporarily unretired by the successor Coyotes franchise for Bobby's son Brett in the 2005–06 season before his son Brett retired five games into that season.

Franchise scoring leaders

Further information: Phoenix Coyotes § Franchise scoring leaders

These are the top-ten-point-scorers in Winnipeg Jets history, combining NHL and WHA totals.

Legend: Pos = position; GP = gpmes played; G = goals; A = assists; Pts = points; P/G = points per game

Points
Player Pos GP G A Pts P/G
Dale Hawerchuk C 713 379 550 929 1.30
Thomas Steen RW 950 264 553 817 .86
Bobby Hull LW 429 307 341 648 1.51
Paul MacLean RW 527 248 270 518 .98
Ulf Nilsson C 300 140 344 484 1.61
Anders Hedberg RW 286 236 222 458 1.60
Willy Lindstrom RW 604 220 229 449 .74
Morris Lukowich LW 511 233 213 446 .87
Doug Smail LW 691 189 208 397 .58
Laurie Boschman LW 526 152 227 379 .72

Winnipeg Jets individual records

Teemu Selanne celebrates breaking NHL rookie goal record
  • Most goals in a season: Bobby Hull 77 (1974–75)
    • Most goals in an NHL season: Teemu Selanne, 76 (1992–93; NHL rookie record)
  • Most assists in a season: Phil Housley, 79 (1992–93)
  • Most points in a season: Bobby Hull 142 (1974–75)
    • Most points in an NHL season: Teemu Selanne 132 (1992–93; NHL rookie record)
  • Most penalty minutes in a season: Tie Domi, 347 (1993–94)
  • Most points in a season, defenceman: Phil Housley, 97 (1992–93)
  • Most points in a season, rookie: Teemu Selanne, 132 (1992–93; NHL record)
  • Most wins in a season: Joe Daley, 41 (1975–76)

See also

References

Notes
  1. ^ Scott Adam Surgent, The Complete Historical and Statistical Reference to the World Hockey Association, Xaler Press, 1995. Pg.58
  2. ^ Scott Adam Surgent, Pg.114
  3. ^ Cole, Stephen (2006). The Canadian Hockey Atlas. Doubleday Canada. p. 232. ISBN 978-03-8566-093-8.
  4. ^ Willes, Ed (2004). The Rebel League: The Short and Unruly Life of the World Hockey Association. Toronto: McLelland and Stewart. p. 241. ISBN 978-07-7108-947-3.
  5. ^ Berry, Walter (December 4, 1995). "Winnipeg Jets to Relocate in Desert". AP NEWS. The Associated Press.
  6. ^ a b "Bettman and the Jets: Tales from the NHL's flight from Winnipeg". Toronto Star. May 3, 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
  7. ^ "Detroit Red Wings at Winnipeg Jets Box Score, April 28, 1996 | Hockey-Reference.com". Retrieved June 25, 2011.
  8. ^ Ken Wiebe, SUN Media (October 4, 2009). "Thrashers to Winnipeg?". canoe.ca. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  9. ^ "True North also had talks about buying Predators, Coyotes". National Post. June 2, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  10. ^ Wyshynski, Greg (April 15, 2024). "Everything we know about the Arizona Coyotes moving to Utah - How is the transaction going to work?". ESPN.com. Retrieved April 15, 2024. It's expected that the final transaction will include a clause that allows Meruelo to "reactivate" the franchise as an expansion team -- paying what's expected to be a $1 billion expansion fee if that happens -- between now and 2029 if his arena project is completed. All of the team's intellectual property -- including those iconic Kachina jerseys -- would remain with Meruelo. It's an agreement that evokes the deal made with the city of Cleveland when the Browns moved to Baltimore in 1995.
  11. ^ "Bettman confirms Meruelo will not be re-activating Coyotes franchise". Sportsnet.ca. June 25, 2024. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
  12. ^ "Reverse Retro alternate jerseys for all 31 teams unveiled by NHL, adidas". National Hockey League. December 1, 2020. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
  13. ^ "Jets announce tribute to Hawerchuk on 40th anniversary of first contract". National Hockey League. August 13, 2021. Retrieved August 13, 2021.
  14. ^ "NHL Reverse Retro jerseys for all 32 teams unveiled by adidas". NHL.com. October 20, 2022. Retrieved October 20, 2022.
  15. ^ Sigurdson, Hal (April 18, 1987). "Whiteout aside, defence tells tale". Winnipeg Free Press. p. 83.
  16. ^ "Wear-White-and-Be-Loud!".
  17. ^ "It's-Time-For-White-Out-2012".
  18. ^ Code explanation; GP—Games Played, W—Wins, L—Losses, GF—Goals For, GA—Goals Against, Pts—Points
  19. ^ The result of the playoff series shows the team's result first regardless of the outcome, followed by the opposing team in parentheses.
  20. ^ Totals as of the completion of the 1995–96 regular season
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