The Minnesota Wild have postponed all play until Feb. 9, due to a COVID outbreak this week. And just to make your hockey heart sink further into the depressive depth, the Minnesota Whitecaps and the rest of the NWHL bubble had to leave Lake Placid and suspend all play, leaving the Isobel Cup without a champion for another year because of this plague.
There is one team that is still going ahead with its season—no matter what you think of that—and that is Minnesota’s AHL affiliate, the Iowa Wild.
The American Hockey League is starting up today, dusting off the cobwebs of the perennial crank that is getting excited about young players and watching older, recognizable dudes score a ton of goals again.