The Phoenix Coyotes are a professional ice hockey team based in Glendale, Arizona, just outside of Phoenix.<br />They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL).<br />They play their home games at Jobing.com Arena.<br />The Coyotes were founded in 1972 as the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association (WHA), joining the NHL in 1979 and moving to Phoenix in 1996.<br />Their home ice was at the US Airways Center (then known as America West Arena) for seven years until 2003, when Jobing.com Arena opened. (*)