If the 2020-21 Stockton Heat season was broken into six segments of equal size, Wednesday’s game against the Toronto Marlies would represent the penultimate contest of the fourth five-game block.
The Heat have had a wildly inconsistent season, the varying quality of which becomes obvious when looking at the team’s record in its successive segments:
Segment 1 — 3-2-0
Segment 2 — 5-0-0
Segment 3 — 0-4-1
Segment 4 (incomplete) — 1-2-0
Despite having lost seven of its last eight games, Stockton has an opportunity to close out another winning segment with victories over the Toronto Marlies on Wednesday and the Laval Rocket on Friday.