Were this any normal year, the AHL would be announcing their league-wide awards this week, ending with the MVP award this Friday. Most fans aren't privy to how these selections are made, but frankly, the AHL award selection process is broken. The good news is that there is an easy way to fix it that also increases the league's primary mandate to develop players and has side benefits of increasing fan engagement with the league: double the number of awards.
Sometime in March, ballots for all the major awards go out from the league office in Springfield.