Texas Stars head coach Neil Graham sat down with Defending Big D to talk about preparing for the strangest season of hockey, defining this season’s success, keeping up with his former players that have graduated to the NHL, and being flexible.
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It hasn’t just been the NHL playing in very weird circumstances this hockey season. The AHL, the league’s top affiliate, has been handed possibly an even harder assignment than their top-level counterparts. In a league that is almost exclusively dependent on gate revenues to try to even break even financially, it would probably make more sense not to have an AHL season for most teams.