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Temporary home: A look at the Wild s interim division
For one season only, Minnesota will play in the NHL s makeshift West Division by Dan Myers @mnwildscribe / Wild.com
Last summer, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the NHL to finish its season inside a pair of Canadian bubbles in Toronto and Edmonton.
It was a solid option to wrap up a season that had abruptly ended five months earlier.
But with the pandemic still clinging to every-day life in North America, it has forced the NHL to think outside the box in an effort to play a truncated 2020-21 season.
The most prominent of those ideas is a temporary re-shuffling of its divisions, as restrictions between the United States and Canada have forced the League to limit travel between the two neighbors.