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Nick Bonino doesn t feel like a newcomer.
He s been in Minnesota since mid-November, skating with Wild players at Tria Rink in St. Paul as he prepares for his first season with the team after being added in an offseason trade from Nashville. Everyone s been very welcoming, Bonino said last week by phone. It s been easy to acclimate, for sure.
Still, Bonino has more to learn to completely integrate with the group, and less time to do so than he normally would.
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The Wild will have fewer games to try to secure a playoff spot.
Almost every road trip will start with a lengthy flight, since all but one of the team s division rivals live one or two time zones away.
And the Wild s schedule, all against teams in the makeshift West Division, could be interrupted at any time by a pandemic that continues to rage around the world.
But that doesn t mean General Manager Bill Guerin will be grading the upcoming season on a curve. Not at all, Guerin said on a video call Monday. This is another season in the National Hockey League, and we expect everybody with the Minnesota Wild to compete and compete for a championship and bring their best every night. Just because it s a different type of season and shortened and we re starting at a different time and everything that s going on in the world no, expectations are the same.