How the Utah Mammoth history timeline game works

These cards follow the franchise now known as the Mammoth through every stop it has made, and each has a brief description beneath its title. Put the moments in order by the year they happened. One card begins on the timeline with its year in view. Then each new card goes into a gap you choose; get it right and the year shows, get it wrong and the card lands in its true spot while costing one of your three lives.

Few franchises have moved around this much, between leagues, countries, arenas and names. The deck touches each stop, so the descriptions, with their building names, team names and league details, are often more useful than what you know about the players. The middle stretch is the trickiest, when the club changed homes, owners and coaches in quick succession.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 22 of the 22 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Original Winnipeg Jets founded A new WHA club lands superstar Bobby Hull with a landmark contract
Signed Hedberg and Nilsson The Jets add two Swedish stars, helping open the WHA to European talent
First Avco Cup championship The Jets win the WHA's title for the first time
Second Avco Cup title The Jets capture another WHA championship
Joined the NHL The WHA folds and the Jets enter the NHL, having just won a final Avco Cup
Drafted Dale Hawerchuk The Jets take the future franchise center first overall
Hawerchuk wins the Calder The teenage center is named the NHL's top rookie
Franchise-best 96-point season The Jets post their strongest NHL regular season
Drafted Teemu Selanne The Jets take the Finnish Flash tenth overall, years before he debuts
Traded Dale Hawerchuk The Jets deal their franchise center to Buffalo
Selanne's 76-goal rookie season The Finnish Flash shatters the rookie goal record
Franchise relocates to Phoenix The Jets leave Winnipeg and become the Coyotes
Keith Tkachuk leads the NHL in goals The captain's 52 goals top the league in the desert club's first season
New Glendale arena opens The Coyotes move into a new suburban building west of the city
Wayne Gretzky becomes head coach The Great One takes over behind the Coyotes bench
Bankruptcy and NHL ownership The Coyotes file for Chapter 11 and the league takes over the team amid relocation attempts
Western Conference Final run The Coyotes reach the conference final for the only time before falling to Los Angeles
Renamed the Arizona Coyotes The franchise drops 'Phoenix' from its name
Bubble series win over Nashville In the pandemic restart, the Coyotes win a qualifying-round series
Move to Mullett Arena The Coyotes begin playing in a tiny arena on Arizona State's campus
Hockey operations move to Utah The Coyotes are deactivated and the team's players and staff transfer to Salt Lake City
Renamed the Utah Mammoth After a season as the Utah Hockey Club, the franchise unveils its permanent identity