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When the Winnipeg Jets left the city in 1996 they broke a lot of hearts. When they returned in 2011, they transformed a city. Jets Stream looks at the wild ride of an Avco cup-winning team hitting the big leagues, leaving, and coming back as a contender. This episode the birth of a team and a league; the Jets transform the WHA and hockey. Hello Bobby Hull and the Swedes.

The Winnipeg Jets of the NHL changed the way we play hockey. And, along the way they also changed Winnipeg, and broke a few hearts as well. In this episode of Jets Stream the team breaks into the NHL, but at a huge cost.

The Winnipeg Jets transformed hockey and a city. Jets Stream looks at the stories behind the stats and explores the wild ride of the team that won hearts, left town and broke those hearts. But, also, how a city started plotting the team's return.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 is a day that will live long in Manitoba history; It's the day that the world found out that Winnipeg's NHL Jets were being re-born. How that came about and how it changed this city is an epic tale.

First they changed hockey by signing Bobby Hull and introducing Europeans to the NHL. When the Jets returned to Winnipeg, they changed the city.