The team moved to Winnipeg ahead of the 2019–20 WHL season, and played home games at Wayne Fleming Arena.

[5] The Winnipeg Ice played their first regular season game on September 20, 2019, defeating the Brandon Wheat Kings by a score of 3–2; they made their home debut the following day, losing a re-match against the rival Wheat Kings by a score of 4–2 in front of a sold-out crowd.

[6] The season wound up being cut short and the playoffs cancelled by the COVID-19 pandemic; the following season was shortened and heavily modified, with East Division teams playing a 24-game in-division schedule with all games centralized in Regina, Saskatchewan.

[7] When the league resumed regular scheduling in 2021–22, the Ice proved themselves to be a contending team.

Led by stars including Zach Benson and Matthew Savoie, Winnipeg won consecutive Scotty Munro Memorial Trophies for the best regular season record in 2021–22 and 2022–23—including franchise-record marks of 57 wins and 115 points in the latter season—and in 2023 advanced to the league's championship final, losing a five-game series to the Seattle Thunderbirds.