The financially troubled Phoenix Coyotes will go to the well for a third straight year by holding one of their home pre-season games in Winnipeg this fall.
The Coyotes will meet the Calgary Flames in an NHL exhibition game here Sept. 24, True North Sports and Entertainment announced on Monday.
In 2006, the Coyotes and Edmonton Oilers sold out MTS Centre with 15,015 fans. Last fall, when Phoenix met the Toronto Maple Leafs, attendance shrank to 13,417. Both were profitable outings for the Arizona-based team, something that isn't the case in recent times in the desert.
Tickets for this September's encounter are already on sale to Manitoba Moose season-ticket and mini-pack holders. The price, as usual, is in a range between $49 and $119, approximately NHL prices.
This will be the sixth NHL exhibition game played in Winnipeg since the 1996 departure of the Winnipeg Jets, the now-Coyotes. It will be Calgary's first pre-season game here in that span.
-- Tim Campbell
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