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Stadium:
Jobing.com Arena
Jobing.com Arena (formerly Glendale Arena) is an arena located in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. It is home to the Phoenix Coyotes of the NHL and the Arizona Sting of the NLL. Completed in 2003, the arena cost $180 million. It seats 17,500 for hockey and lacrosse. Jobing.com Arena sits across the street from University of Phoenix Stadium.

Seating Chart:
Jobing.com Arena Seating Chart

Team History:
The team began play as the Winnipeg Jets, one of the founding franchises in the World Hockey Association (WHA). The Jets were the most successful team in the short-lived WHA, winning three Avco World Trophies, the league's championship trophy, and making the finals five out of the WHA's seven seasons. It then became one of the four teams admitted to the NHL when the rival leagues merged in 1979. However, the club was never able to translate that success into the NHL after the merger, in part because they played in the same division as the powerful Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames. While they made the playoffs 11 times in 16 seasons, they only won two playoff series. Due to the way the playoffs were structured for much of their Winnipeg run, the Jets were all but assured of having to defeat either the Oilers or the Flames to make it to the conference finals. Despite strong fan support, the money simply was not around for the team, especially after player salaries began spiraling up in the early 1990s. The team was sold to Phoenix businessmen Steven Gluckstern and Richard Burke, and in 1996, the club moved to Arizona and became the Phoenix Coyotes.

Season Preview:
In the second year of the Wayne Gretzky coaching era, the Coyotes hope to be significantly more difficult to play against, especially at home, where they were 13th in the conference last season. They beefed up an already talented, deep blue line by signing Ed Jovanovski and trading for Nick Boynton. Up front, the offensively challenged Coyotes hope to have gifted Ladislav Nagy healthy for a whole season and are also banking on at least one of either Jeremy Roenick or Owen Nolan to bounce back and contribute 30 goals or more. The additions should improve special teams that were both below the middle of the pack. If Curtis Joseph, reborn in the desert last season, can get a little more help (and he should), there's no reason to suggest the Coyotes won't be a surprise playoff team in the West. It would certainly be a nice way for the franchise to put behind the odor of last year's Rick Tocchet gambling fiasco that undoubtedly made for an unpleasant distraction.

Official Site:
http://coyotes.nhl.com/