The Phoenix Coyotes are a professional ice hockey team based in Glendale, Arizona, USA, a suburb of Phoenix. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They play their home games at Jobing.com Arena.
The Coyotes were founded in 1972 as the original Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association (WHA), and were one of four franchises absorbed into the NHL when the WHA folded in 1979. In 1996, the Jets relocated to Phoenix to become the Coyotes. Their original home venue was America West Arena (now called US Airways Center), but due to its inadequacy for hockey games, the team moved into the new Glendale Arena (now Jobing.com Arena) in Glendale in 2003.
The NHL has owned the Coyotes since 2009, when team owner Jerry Moyes, who had purchased the team in 2005 and incurred massive financial losses, turned it over to the league after declaring bankruptcy the previous year. Moyes had previously attempted to privately sell the team to Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie, who wanted to relocate the team to Hamilton, Ontario (and has unsuccessfully tried to buy and move at least three other teams). However, the NHL protested that the attempted sale was a violation of league policy; a court agreed. The league has resisted selling the team to interests that would have moved the team (True North Sports and Entertainment's bid, which would have returned the team to Winnipeg, was rejected, leading the group to buy the Atlanta Thrashers instead), but the loss of subsidies from the city of Glendale and relatively low attendance figures threaten the team's viability in Arizona.
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