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Originally Posted by FanIn80
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Coyotes
You're right though. Even though everything says "retired," it looks like the only numbers actually retired are Doan's #19 and Gretzky's #99. Weird.
...and I don't think a franchise is allowed to retire a number that has never played for them before (other than a league-retired number), but I could be wrong on that for sure. I mean, I have been wrong at least once before, so it's possible it could happen again.
Edit: Anyway, I'm done yelling at the clouds now. It was just a brief moment of " they're not even the same franchise, lol" but I'm over it. 
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I don't believe the league has any rules on what numbers a team can or can't retire.
They may step in behind the scenes and say, "Edmonton, why are you retiring Lindros' when he never played for you? It looks silly" or, "Edmonton, you need to take it easy on the jersey retirements, soon you wont have enough numbers for your current roster.." But they pretty much let the teams do what they want and probably o Ly ask to be kept in the loop for TV purposes.