On March 11, 2020, Riley Barber scored in overtime to give the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins a 2-1 victory over the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. That would be the last time the Penguins would take the ice that season, as it was postponed the next day as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, then cancelled entirely two months later on May 11.
Now, nearly nine months later, the WBS Penguins are set to retake the ice for their 22nd season amidst an ongoing pandemic that has caused significant disruption or cancellation to nearly every major professional league that has tried to operate during it without locking everyone into an airtight bubble.