How to play the Winnipeg Jets history game

The current Jets franchise gets the full treatment here: every card is a milestone with a short note under the title, and you sort them by the year they happened. You start with one milestone on the timeline, year visible. Each new card goes into a gap you pick. If it's the right gap, the year is shown. If it's not, the card moves to its correct place and you lose one of three lives.

This franchise began life somewhere else, so the first part of the deck plays out in a southern market before the team relocated north. The early section is all young stars, award seasons and trades sending those stars away, and those trades bunch up closely. Winnipeg's chapter leans on playoff runs and goaltending honors. Keep in mind that the same player can win the same trophy more than once.

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 18 of the 18 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Awarded a franchise to Atlanta The NHL grants Georgia a team, the Thrashers, to begin play two years later
Thrashers' inaugural season The Atlanta club plays its first games and drafts Patrik Stefan first overall
Drafted Ilya Kovalchuk Atlanta takes the Russian sniper first overall
Dany Heatley wins the Calder The young Atlanta winger is named the league's top rookie
Kovalchuk shares the Rocket Richard A 41-goal season ties him for the league lead
Traded Dany Heatley Atlanta sends its winger to Ottawa in a swap that brings back Marian Hossa
Only Atlanta playoff berth A Southeast Division title earns the franchise's lone postseason trip in Georgia, then a sweep
Traded Marian Hossa Atlanta deals the winger to Pittsburgh at the deadline
Traded Ilya Kovalchuk With the star heading to free agency, Atlanta trades him to New Jersey
Franchise moves to Winnipeg Sold to True North, the team relocates and Mark Scheifele becomes the first draft pick in the new city
Paul Maurice hired as coach The veteran takes over mid-season behind the Winnipeg bench
First Winnipeg playoff appearance The relocated club reaches the postseason for the first time, then is swept by Anaheim
Drafted Patrik Laine The Finnish sniper is taken second overall
Western Conference Final run A franchise-record 114-point season carries them to within three wins of the Cup Final before Vegas ends it
Connor Hellebuyck wins the Vezina The goalie is named the league's best netminder for the first time
Swept Edmonton in the first round A four-game sweep of the Oilers wins an all-Canadian division series
Hellebuyck's second Vezina The goalie is again named the NHL's top netminder
Presidents' Trophy season A 56-win campaign earns the league's best record while Hellebuyck adds the Vezina and Hart