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===The Arizona Coyotes affiliation===
On April 17, 2015, the Springfield Falcons and Arizona Coyotes announced that they had reached a three-year affiliation agreement.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://coyotes.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=763720 |publisher=''Arizona Coyotes'' |title=Coyotes Announce New Affiliation Agreement with Springfield of the AHL| date=2015-04-17}}</ref> This was part of change of affiliations for the [[2015–16 AHL season|2015–16 season]] where Columbus would have their AHL team in [[Lake Erie Monsters|Lake Erie]], the Colorado Avalanche in [[San Antonio Rampage|San Antonio]] and the [[Florida Panthers]] would be tied to the [[Portland Pirates]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://theahl.com/falcons-monsters-rampage-swap-nhl-affiliates-p197468 |title=Falcons, Monsters, Rampage swap NHL affiliates |publisher=AHL |date=April 17, 2015 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417230456/http://theahl.com/falcons-monsters-rampage-swap-nhl-affiliates-p197468 |archivedate=April 17, 2015 |df= }}</ref>
 
The Coyotes hired [[Ron Rolston]] as the team's head coach, with [[Doug Janik]] and [[Mike Bavis]] as his assistants for the [[2015–16 AHL season|2015–16 season]]. [[Dustin Jeffrey]] was named a Second Team All-Star, although he finished the season with the [[Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins]] after being traded at the trade deadline. The season was one of the worst in franchise history and marked the 11th time in 13 seasons that the club missed the playoffs, finishing with the second lowest points percentage in the AHL and the most regulation losses.