Winnipeg Jets
The Winnipeg Jets are a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and are members of the Southeast Division of the National Hockey League's Eastern Conference. The team is owned by True North Sports & Entertainment, who purchased the Atlanta Thrashers franchise in Spring 2011 and relocated to Winnipeg prior to the 2011–12 NHL season (the first NHL franchise relocation since the Hartford Whalers became the Carolina Hurricanes in 1997). The Jets play their home games at the MTS Centre in Downtown Winnipeg, and take their name from Winnipeg's original WHA/NHL team, which relocated and became the Phoenix Coyotes in 1996.