COVID Outbreak Shuts Down the Minnesota Wild

The Minnesota Wild are the latest team to be dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak as the virus is hitting the league extremely hard at the moment. The Wild had five players added to the protocol list and all their games have been postponed until February 9th.

The league hopes with basically a week long shut down, the team can get the virus under control with some quarantine and isolation.

Schedule Update: @mnwild games postponed at least through Tuesday, Feb. 9. https://t.co/eYZKMkyx0v pic.twitter.com/FiVd8T8dKh
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) February 4, 2021

Minnesota forwards Nick Bjugstad, Nick Bonino, Joel Eriksson Ek, Marcus Johansson, and captain Jared Spurgeon were placed on the league's COVID-19 protocol list Wednesday. Joining Marcus Foligno who was already on the list.

Here's the complete list from around the league, and as you can see, the Canadian division appears to have been a great idea.