Winnipeg Jets History

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15 games starting at $118! And I couldn't afford that back then.

 

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On June 21, 2011, the NHL Board of Governors approved the NHL return to Winnipeg.

NHL Board of Governors approves sale of Thrashers to True North Sports & Entertainment

 

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On June 21, 2011, the NHL Board of Governors approved the NHL return to Winnipeg.

NHL Board of Governors approves sale of Thrashers to True North Sports & Entertainment

Wow, it been 10 years already .....

 

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On June 24, 2011 True North named the team the Winnipeg Jets and selected Mark Scheifele.

 

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That game was a highlight of crazy.

 

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10 years ago, on July 22, 2011.

A courier leaks the Jets logo online forcing True North to reveal the new Jets logo early.

 

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On the 40th anniversary of signing Dale Hawerchuk to his first NHL contract at Portage & Main, the Winnipeg Jets announced plans to honour the late, great Hall of Famer.
A statue will be erected at True North Square effective next August, team owner Mark Chipman said.
As well, the area between True North Square and Canada Life Centre will be given an honorary renaming of “Dale Hawerchuk Way.”
New Heritage-themed licence plates, an annual pond hockey tournament and a move to the Heritage jerseys as the full-time third jersey — the club will wear them for 14 home games this coming season — were also announced.

Mark Chipman announced Friday a statue of Dale Hawerchuk would be erected August 2022.

The area between True North Square and Canada Life Centre will be given an honorary renaming of “Dale Hawerchuk Way.”

 

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On the 40th anniversary of signing Dale Hawerchuk to his first NHL contract at Portage & Main, the Winnipeg Jets announced plans to honour the late, great Hall of Famer.
A statue will be erected at True North Square effective next August, team owner Mark Chipman said.
As well, the area between True North Square and Canada Life Centre will be given an honorary renaming of “Dale Hawerchuk Way.”
New Heritage-themed licence plates, an annual pond hockey tournament and a move to the Heritage jerseys as the full-time third jersey — the club will wear them for 14 home games this coming season — were also announced.

Mark Chipman announced Friday a statue of Dale Hawerchuk would be erected August 2022.

The area between True North Square and Canada Life Centre will be given an honorary renaming of “Dale Hawerchuk Way.”

 

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Thought this would be a good place to post my new free online newsletter as I'm a life-long Winnipegger and Jets fan!

I'm thrilled to announce that I have decided to return to independent media with the launch of NHL History with Ty Di Lello on Substack. If you enjoy the history of our great sport, then you won't want to miss this as I'll be posting two articles per week, coming right to your email's inbox. Mixed in with my history articles will be some Jets coverage of the current team and the NHL in general.

Subscribe today! It's free!

Welcome to NHL History with Ty Di Lello

Here is the welcome article that is now featured on my Substack:

I guess you could say that things are coming full circle.

I first got into the media business by starting an independent blog called Jets Talk after the Winnipeg Jets first returned to the National Hockey League in 2011.

It wasn’t great. But it was my start in the “business.”

Ten years later, I am now officially returning to independent media. I feel it is the way of the future. In ten years, I’ve certainly grown as a hockey writer and historian.

At the age of 28, I’ve now written seven books about the history of hockey. The greatest of which perhaps being my upcoming biography on Hall of Fame legend Bill Mosienko (famous for his three goals in 21 seconds record that will never be broken).

Mosienko: The Man Who Caught Lightning In A Bottle is slated to be released on October 22nd at bookstores across Canada. (Mosienko | Ty Dilello| Great Plains Publications)

Over the years, I’ve written for some of the top hockey publications on the planet, including The Hockey News, NHL.com, International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), Bleacher Report, and many more. Through this, I’ve been fortunate enough to earn media credentials at several NHL arenas and have enjoyed watching many games from the press box.

My main hockey-related passion has always been the history of the game and hearing the stories of the players that have helped shape it.

Over the past ten years, the relationships I’ve built with former players and their families have been instrumental in getting myself to where I am today. And these relationships will sprinkle throughout the articles you read in this newsletter.

I really hope NHL History with Ty Di Lello will become one of your regular stops to read up on some fascinating stories about the history of hockey and the National Hockey League.

Writing this inaugural post reminded me of the excitement I had writing my first for Jets Talk. Only this time around, I have a decade of experience, a heck of a lot more contacts in and around the NHL, and I think I’ve even gotten just a tinge better at the ol’ writing game too.

If you subscribe to NHL History with Ty Di Lello, you can expect at bare minimum two articles to your email’s inbox every week on Tuesday and Friday mornings.

Biographies, quirky and player-told stories, and much more! I have so many stories just sitting on my laptop waiting to be told from the likes of the oldest player I’ve ever interviewed in Milt Schmidt (who played in the NHL in the 1930s!) to current NHL superstar Nikita Kucherov. So if you’re a fellow hockey historian like myself, I can promise that you won’t be disappointed by what’s to come in this newsletter.

I plan on keeping this newsletter free for the next while as I get my bearings here, so why not subscribe in the meantime and see what this is all about!

Sometime in early 2022, there will be a transition to a cheap ($5 a month) paid subscription model while also ensuring that free subscribers still get an article every two weeks.

Wrapping this introduction up, I’d like to thank you the reader for however long you’ve followed my work. If you’re new, I look forward to showing you my stuff. This is a big leap of faith, but one I am excited to make. I hope you’ll join me on this new journey, and I can’t wait to take you along for what should be an entertaining ride.

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Welcome to NHL History with Ty Di Lello

 

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I think I still have a copy of this issue...

 

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Wow! Very cool! My favourite player and hero when I was a kid! The reason I chose #15!

 

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Reading this and just got to the 1985 playoffs. I like how in 2021 with footage of the 1985 playoffs easily accessible on YouTube, a writer writing a history book on the team still can claim the Whiteout started in 1985 instead of 1987.

Also feel like the book could have used a better editor. For example, was it really necessary to repeat the exact same story how Nilsson was the first to use the "Forsberg" move 200 pages apart? With the same quotes!?