Minnesota 2020-2021 Affiliates Thread (Iowa Wild, Allen Americans)

Question.... Guerin hasn’t signed anyone yet for the farm... so safe to say with prospects coming in it’s full?

 

Signed Joseph Cramarossa, Dakota Mermis, Matt Bartkowski, Kyle Rau

 

D Hunter Warner, D Keaton Thompson both AHL deals

 

Nice jerseys!

Wings Stadium was/is an old barn. Cool place to see a game. Definitely a throwback to 70s hockey. ; )

 

Allen is one of the teams in the E that is set to open up earlier and they've released the beginning of that schedule this week:

 

Looking for info on some players who made their debut last season...

F - Gerald Mayhew
D - Brennan Menell
G - Kaapo Kahkonen

What kind of players are they and what kind of NHL projections do they have?

Thanks!

 

Mayhew = AHL Superstar, not an NHL player.

Menell = eventual top 4 two way RHD

KK = Potential NHL starting goaltender one day, at worst a quality NHL backup. Many here would prefer he was our backup this coming season, but it looks like we'll be waiting another year before that happens.

 

Bits and Bobs:

- The Allen Americans, ECHL affiliate of the Minnesota Wild, and partner Globe Life are proud to announce that the team has signed forward Dyson Stevenson to a contract for the upcoming season. The resident of Shaunavon, SASK, returns to Allen after spending the last two seasons with the Utica Comets of the American Hockey League. During those two seasons, he played in 36 games and collected four points and 59 penalty minutes.

- Minnesotan Riley Gill will have his jersey retired by the Allen Americans on December 19th, 2020.

 

I wonder if any of our players will play for allen in the few games in december to stay in shape

 

Allen has released their three sweaters for this season:



The ECHL stuff seems like it'll get interesting as the North Division yesterday completely opted out of this 2020-2021 season (Adirondack Thunder, Brampton Beast, Maine Mariners, Newfoundland Growlers, Reading Royals and the Worcester Railers).

So if the Wild isn't going to send guys down that far to get work, they may be load up on players that are now all free agents from those teams.

 

i like those grays

 

2-1-0 start for Allen. An opening loss to Tulsa, and then back to back wins over Rapid City. Tops in the Mountain Conference right meow.

 

Is he forced to stay in Russia due to his contract, or is Khovanov choosing to stay in the VHL over the AHL, and in an organization who doesn't like him to boot? Seems weird if it's the latter.

 

The only mention is that they would allow him to return to the Wild midseason, but doesn't say much more than that.

 

The Coralville, Iowa team has been given the go ahead for next ECHL season. It wouldn't surprise me to see the Wild move affiliates to try to get someone closer as I believe they've only done a series of 1-year deals with Allen and Iowa is a heck of a lot closer than Texas.

That said, in previous years the Wild have had Alaska, Bakersfield, Orlando, Rapid City, Quad Cities, etc. So It may not matter.

 

Just like in baseball, the minor leagues are taking it on the chin

 

How has beckman looked in Iowa so far?

 

Camp starts this week and their first games are next weekend. I am going down for the 5th and 6th games against the Stars. Excited to see how the young guys play. I will take notes and report back!

 

So you can watch games in person?