Coyotes Primary Logo
The Arizona Coyotes have a long and storied history with their primary logo. The late Jerry Dior designed the original logo in 1996 when the team moved to Phoenix from Winnipeg. It featured an angry coyote howling at a desert cactus while wearing hockey skates and holding a stick in its mouth. This design has remained relatively unchanged over the years, except for minor tweaks here and there, such as color changes or simplifying some aspects of it.
In 2003, however, the Coyotes underwent another redesign of their primary logo, which included adding more detail to both the coyote’s face and body posture; this was done mainly to make it look more fierce than before, still keeping true to its original concept. They also changed up some colors on it - primarily making them darker shades that better suited their new identity at that time period (which would later become known simply as “the blackout”).
Today’s version of this iconic image is almost identical save for one significant change: instead of having two eyes looking forward like all mammals do naturally, now only one eye looks forward while the other points off into space, giving him an even angrier appearance than ever before! Despite these minor alterations though overall shape & form remain largely intact since day one – proving just how timelessly classic this particular piece of artwork truly is!
2022 - Present
The Kachina logo returns as the Arizona Coyotes full-time primary logo. The logo remains the same as it did in the late 1990s, a kachina-doll style coyote posed in the shape of a letter “A” holding a hockey stick.
2015 - 2021
The primary logo for the Arizona Coyotes is an aggressive coyote howling at the moon. It has a two-tone face with zig-zag black markings down the middle, three pieces of mane leading down to the neck, and triangular markings in the ear and chin. The Arizona Coyotes logo includes four triangles across the bridge of the snout, representative of the Four Peaks. The logo was designed by Adrenalin Design Group.
2004 - 2014
In 2003 – 2004, the Coyotes introduced a much cleaner, less experimental design to represent the team. The color scheme was simplified to a brick and tan and the logo is way less busy than the hectic design that came before it.
2000 - 2003
In 1999 the logo remained same with a darker shade of brick red and removed the wordmark “Phoenix Coyotes.” The coyote image is much larger.
1997 - 1999
When first designing the logo, artist Greg Fisher was actually asked to stay away from something menacing and instead focus on embracing the Southwest culture in an attempt to make the Arizona residents feel the team truly belonged to them. The logo consists of a sienna-colored Coyote wearing half of a sand-colored goalie mask and a brick red hockey jersey with hunter green pants. Clutching a sand hockey stick with a purple crescent moon logo on its chest.
1991 - 1996
In 1991 the logo changed to white dominate logo. The jet now orange which used to be flying up towards the sky, was now a simplified and flew level. A wordmark “WINNIPEG JETS” in blue on a white background. The “J” is still a blue hockey stick and the logo is surrounded by a orange circle.
1979 - 1990
In 1979 the Jets logo featured a jet taking off on a orange circle inside a blue circle with a wordmark “JETS” in white and “WINNIPEG” wordmark below in orange. A white hockey stick is the “J” in the wordmark “Jets.”