The last time the Winnipeg Jets won a professional hockey championship, they did so under some of the most unique circumstances in sport. Winnipeg’s 1978-79 WHA season began with an exodus of talent, ...

Winnipeg's hockey history is proudly linked to the Jets of captain Lars-Erik Sjoberg, here with the WHA's Avco Cup after beating rival Edmonton in 1979, that pioneered the current NHL's fast-paced ...

BOSTON — Tom McVie, who coached the Winnipeg Jets to the 1979 World Hockey Association championship over Wayne Gretzky’s Edmonton Oilers in the final year before the franchises were absorbed into the ...

1979 Avco Cup Final: Gretzky Arrives, But the Jets Reign Supreme Fast forward three years and a teenage Wayne Gretzky, who was acquired in a game of backgammon, was lighting up the WHA. The Oilers ...

From left to right in the above photo: Kim Clackson, John Gray, Steve West, Roland Eriksson, Markus Mattsson, Mike Amodeo, Willy Lindstrom A number of past Winnipeg Jets were in the River City from ...

After Winnipeg won the World Hockey Association’s Avco Cup in the spring of 1979, things went pretty much downhill -- for the Jets and the city. Once the center of western Canada’s economy, the ...

Back in 1976, there was a strong belief that a North American pro hockey team could not win with a large number of European players in the line-up. The Jets had added seven players from Sweden and ...

Scott Campbell, a former first-overall pick in the World Hockey Association, and a first-round pick in the National Hockey League, has died after a courageous 11-month battle with cancer. Campbell, ...