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Welcome back, Wild: NHL makes its return, and it's a new world Return to work includes revamped roster, division realignment, 56-game schedule. January 2, 2021 — 9:24pm Text size Copy shortlink: 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.
Copy shortlink: 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.