While the Minnesota Wild and a couple other NHL teams have their season halted due to outbreaks and a plague working its way through the entire team, the AHL started their own weird, shortened, intradivisional season this past weekend.
The Wild’s affiliate in Iowa isn’t having the best time when it actually comes to winning hockey games, starting their season with a 1-1-1 record, including an 8-4 loss against the Texas Stars to start it all. But that isn’t really the whole point of this season any ways. With the AHL opting for the Central Division to have a 34-game season with no Calder Cup being awarded at the end of it—they might have a quick internal divisional playoffs, but we don’t know for sure—this season is really just logging more games for the young guys to develop.