Corbin Baldwin Reassigned to Alaska Aces

23-year-old defender Corbin Baldwin has been reassigned from the Iowa Wild to the Alaska Aces of the ECHL.

Baldwin is a big defenseman at 6-foot-5, 215 pounds who got a little time with the NHL club during training camp, but has yet to get his cup of coffee. He’s bounced around quite a bit over the last three years playing for Minnesota Wild affiliates the Houston Aeros (AHL), Iowa Wild (AHL), Quad City Mallards (ex-CHL, now ECHL), Orlando Solar Bears (ECHL), and now the Alaska Aces, who replaced the Solar Bears as a Wild ECHL affiliate this summer. Though Baldwin spent most of last season in Iowa, playing 64 games for Iowa and just a single game for the Mallards.

Playing for Iowa last season Baldwin had no goals, one assist, 129 penalty minutes, and a minus-5 rating. He has no goals and two assists through 70 career AHL games and no goals and five assists through 38 career ECHL games. The case could be made that Baldwin’s move to the ECHL is another event that’s showing how the professional hockey landscape is changing for players who play something of an enforcer role. Yesterday, we saw Matt Kasian get dropped by his AHL team, Zenon Konopka is without a job, Mike Rupp is without a job, Paul Bissonnette is without a job, Stu Bickel hasn’t been given a NHL game yet, Tom Sestito hasn’t played a game yet… the list goes on. Baldwin may be one among many players that need to prove there’s more to their game than being a physical presence.

The Aces have had a rough start to the season starting 0-3-0-0 to sit dead last in the Western Conference.

Watch an interview with Corbin Baldwin from last season:

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