Winnipeg Arena was the original Jets' NHL home from 1979 until the last game on April 28, 1996. The building came down in 2006. Ticket Timeline helps you log every Jets night you attended there, separate from the club that arrived in 2011.
A Winnipeg Arena stub is not a leftover from a place that no longer matters. The original Jets nights still happened on Maroons Road.
Winnipeg Arena was the original Jets' home in the WHA and the NHL. Tickets said Winnipeg Arena. The 2011 Jets play downtown in a different building.
The last NHL game was April 28, 1996. The Manitoba Moose continued in the building until November 4, 2004. The catalog's lastEventYear is 1996, the NHL departure. Demolition was March 26, 2006.
After demolition the site was parking for Canad Inns Stadium. Polo Park North, a retail and office complex, opened on the footprint in 2013.
Verified milestones and rare moments that actually happened in this building.
Winnipeg beat the Colorado Rockies 4–2 in the club's first NHL home game at Winnipeg Arena. Craig Norwich scored twice; Jude Drouin had the winner. Gary Smith earned the win.
1979
Colorado Rockies at Winnipeg Jets, regular season
Selänne scored a hat trick, including his 54th goal of the season, breaking Mike Bossy's rookie record. Quebec still won 7–4 at Winnipeg Arena. Selänne finished with three even-strength goals on six shots.
1993
Quebec Nordiques at Winnipeg Jets, regular season
Selänne scored his 76th goal in a 3–0 win over Edmonton at Winnipeg Arena, finishing a rookie season that still stands. Bob Essensa stopped all 31 Oilers shots. This game was at Winnipeg Arena, not Edmonton.
1993
Edmonton Oilers at Winnipeg Jets, regular season
Winnipeg beat Los Angeles 5–3 to clinch a playoff berth in the last regular-season home game at Winnipeg Arena. Keith Tkachuk scored into an empty net for his 50th goal. Shane Doan had the winner.
1996
Los Angeles Kings at Winnipeg Jets, regular season
Detroit eliminated Winnipeg 4–1 in Western Conference Quarter-Finals Game 6, the original Jets' last NHL game. Norm Maciver scored Winnipeg's only goal. The franchise moved to Phoenix that summer.
1996
1996 Western Conference Quarter-Finals, Game 6
If your stub says Winnipeg Arena, that is this building — it is gone, demolished in 2006. The original Jets (1979–1996) played here. A later Jets club downtown is a different franchise in a different barn. Polo Park North sits on the old footprint. Log those nights on the Winnipeg Jets (1979–1996) game tracker; this page is the Arena the stub names.
An original Jets stub from Maroons Road is not a night at Canada Life Centre. Ticket Timeline helps you pin each Winnipeg Arena game you attended to the real matchup and roster before the club left for Phoenix.
Facts that help date a stub from a building that is gone.
Follow the teams and league context connected to this building.
Once an original Jets game is in your timeline, Ticket Timeline surfaces the attendance story from your seats—not a league-wide feed.
Log every game you were physically at in this building—matchups, dates, and scores tied to nights you actually had a ticket at Winnipeg Arena.
Ticket Timeline matches each attended game to real rosters, so the athletes you watched in this building become part of your personal record.
Surface career highs, records, and rare moments that happened while you were in these seats—not league-wide highlights you only saw on TV.
Yes. Ticket Timeline helps you log original Jets games you attended at Winnipeg Arena—including the 1979 NHL home opener and the last NHL game in 1996—along with the matchup, players, and moments tied to each game.
No. The 2011 Jets play at Canada Life Centre downtown. Winnipeg Arena was demolished in 2006. Stubs that say Winnipeg Arena belong here, on the original Jets (1979–1996) archive.
Yes. The Manitoba Moose played there until November 4, 2004. The catalog dates the NHL closure to 1996. This page's published tenant is the original Jets.
Yes. Ticket Timeline matches each attended original Jets game to real box scores and rosters, so the players on the ice that night become part of your Winnipeg Arena record.
Yes. Import a spreadsheet of attended games, scan ticket stubs, or import Gmail ticket confirmations. Ticket Timeline matches entries to NHL context so you are not retyping every Winnipeg Arena date.
No. Ticket Timeline does not sell tickets. It is a stat tracker for games you've already attended, built to help you explore the players, moments, and milestones you witnessed at Winnipeg Arena.
Download Ticket Timeline to turn every original Jets game you attended at Winnipeg Arena into a lasting personal record.
