As the NHL hits the pause button for the Christmas break, let's take a guess at what might be the top item on each team's wish list.

Anaheim Ducks: A first-aid kit to help make sure the club's injury bug is left in 2017.

Arizona Coyotes: Lottery luck, as Rasmus Dahlin may be the only thing to make this miserable season worth it in the end.

Boston Bruins: Super glue, to ensure the current (mostly healthy) roster can stick together for a while.

Buffalo Sabres: To have better lottery luck than the Coyotes.

Calgary Flames: A new arena deal, ideally as a result of some peaceful negotiations.

Carolina Hurricanes: The real Scott Darling, because his .896 save percentage won't cut it for three more seasons.

Chicago Blackhawks: RUB A535 for Corey Crawford's back, as he continues to carry the team on it.

Colorado Avalanche: A lifetime supply of whatever Nathan MacKinnon's been eating this season.

Columbus Blue Jackets: A power-play instruction guide because Cup contenders don't operate at 11.5 percent.

Dallas Stars: A nice bottle of champagne for Ken Hitchcock because 800 wins (and counting) is quite a feat.

Detroit Red Wings: Lots and lots of deadline draft picks. A fire sale could be in order in Motown.

Edmonton Oilers: A ladder, or maybe some rope, to climb out of the hole they dug themselves into.

Florida Panthers: Foresight, because it's quite clear now that getting rid of two of your top forwards for free is a bad idea.

Los Angeles Kings: A deep playoff run to provide Drew Doughty some incentive to stick around.

Minnesota Wild: More goals for captain Mikko Koivu, who has just two since Oct. 28.

Montreal Canadiens: Rebuilding 101, a book on how to make up for years of managerial mistakes.

Nashville Predators: Perhaps just a clone of the red-hot Kyle Turris.

New Jersey Devils: Industrial-sized pickle juice so Blake Coleman stays happy and cramp-free.

New York Islanders: Moving trucks, because the departure from the Barclay's Center can't happen soon enough.

New York Rangers: A massage chair for Henrik Lundqvist, because it may not show in his performance but he is 35-years-old.

Ottawa Senators: Duct tape to ensure owner Eugene Melnyk keeps quiet.

Philadelphia Flyers: Some clothes, because this team won't stop streaking.

Pittsburgh Penguins: A center, as Sid and Geno need some backup if they plan to three-peat.

San Jose Sharks: A legitimate goal scorer, because how does a playoff team rank 28th in that category?

St. Louis Blues: The best skate guards on the market so Jaden Schwartz can block shots without fear.

Tampa Bay Lightning: Horseshoes, since the only thing that can slow this team down is bad luck.

Toronto Maple Leafs: No recurring concussion symptoms, as the health of Auston Matthews is priority No. 1.

Vancouver Canucks: A Calder Trophy for Brock Boeser, who just won't stop scoring.

Vegas Golden Knights: Oxygen tanks, to make sure opponents get no sleep and continue to come down with the "Vegas Flu."

Washington Capitals: More pucks, so Alex Ovechkin can keep putting them all in the net.

Winnipeg Jets: NHL 3-on-3 Arcade, because a team with this much talent shouldn't be 1-5 in overtime.

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The Colorado Avalanche got some bad news on the injury front Saturday night as defenseman Tyson Barrie suffered a fractured hand after blocking an Oliver Ekman-Larsson shot in the first period, the club announced.

The injury is a huge blow to the Avalanche as Barrie currently sits third in team scoring with 27 points in 34 games.

Barrie's timetable is not yet known, but the diagnosis certainly doesn't bode well for a club that, after Saturday's 6-2 win over the Coyotes, sits just three points out of the final playoff spot in the Western Conference.

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Brock Boeser earned himself a Christmas bonus.

The Vancouver Canucks forward tallied his 20th goal of the season in the second period of Saturday's game against the St. Louis Blues, and with it earned a $212,500 bonus, according to Sportsnet's Chris Johnston.

With the goal, Boeser also became the fastest rookie in franchise history to score 20 times, according to Sportsnet Stats. Meanwhile, as TSN 1040's Jeff Paterson pointed out, only four Canucks players have scored more goals than Boeser's 20 over the past five season.

Boeser now has a seven-goal cushion over Arizona Coyotes forward Clayton Keller for the rookie lead.

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Marc-Andre Fleury turned away all 26 shots the Washington Capitals threw his way to record his first shutout as a member of the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday night.

The Golden Knights got by the reigning Presidents' Trophy winners 3-0, and for Fleury it marked his third win in four games since returning from a concussion.

The 33-year-old has been everything the Golden Knights could ask for this season and more as he's improved to 6-1-1 on the year with a .938 save percentage.

The shutout was the 45th of his career and the fourth time he's blanked the Capitals, tied for the second-most against any team in his career.

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The Pittsburgh Penguins find themselves stumbling into the NHL's three-day holiday break.

The two-time defending Stanley Cup champions were shut out by the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday, giving them five losses in their past seven games. The Penguins also sit seventh in the Metropolitan Division, one point up on last-place Philadelphia.

It's not the way head coach Mike Sullivan envisioned kicking off Christmas.

"It's disappointing. We were hoping we'd get some traction from (beating the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday)," he said, per Pens Inside Scoop. "But it didn't work out that way. We all as a group, our coaching staff included, have to do a better job of being ready for games at the drop of the puck."

Sullivan added the group as a whole needs to take a collective look in the mirror and figure out how to be better, and his wish is for everyone to get some quiet time over the break.

"I hope over the next couple of days we'll do some soul searching and come back re-energized," he said.

Pittsburgh will be back in action in Dec. 27 when it hosts Columbus, who it recently beat in a shootout. The Penguins' only wins in regulation this month have come against the Buffalo Sabres and Arizona Coyotes, giving Sullivan reason to be concerned.

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Edmonton Oilers fans can breathe a sigh of relief after Connor McDavid left Saturday's contest versus the Montreal Canadiens following a blocked shot on defenseman Jeff Petry.

McDavid labored to the bench and was seen limping to the dressing room, however, in his postgame media scrum, Oilers coach Todd McLellan noted that X-rays on McDavid came back negative.

McLellan added that he expects McDavid will be in the lineup next game, when the Oilers head to Winnipeg on Wednesday to take on the Jets.

The Oilers have won four straight and now sit just four points outside of a playoff position.

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Zac Rinaldo will hear from the NHL's Department of Player Safety over the holiday break.

During Saturday's action, the Arizona Coyotes forward caught Colorado's Nathan MacKinnon with an open-ice hit, at which time 19-year-old Avalanche defenseman Samuel Girard came to his teammate's defense. Rinaldo proceeded drop Girard with a single punch to the face, prompting a line brawl that resulted in ejections for MacKinnon and Arizona's Josh Archibald.

Rinaldo received a match penalty, prompting an automatic one-game suspension pending further review.

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Patrick Kane is top of the class.

The Chicago Blackhawks forward scored the 300th goal of his career on Saturday night, becoming the first player from the 2007 draft class to reach the milestone.

The next closest players to 300 goals from the 2007 draft are Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn who has 233 and Montreal Canadiens captain Max Pacioretty who's tallied 217.

Kane was drafted first overall in 2007, so maybe it isn't that surprising he was first to hit the mark.

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Peter Laviolette is a man of his word.

The Nashville Predators head coach and his staff sported holiday-themed suits behind the bench during Saturday's game against Dallas after his team swept a recent three-game road trip through Western Canada.

This fulfilled the stipulations set out in a friendly wager proposed by captain Roman Josi, per the team's website. The players would be allowed to wear holiday suits to their final road game before the holiday break if they took five of six points from those three games, and the coaching staff would have to keep theirs on during the game against the Stars if a sweep was accomplished.

Here's a look at the entire coaching staff's threads after the Predators did, indeed, beat Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary:

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Dillon Dube will captain Canada's world junior team, the club announced on Saturday.

In addition, defensemen Dante Fabbro, Victor Mete, and Kale Clague were named alternates.

Dube scored two goals and added an assist in Canada's 8-1 win over Switzerland in pre-tournament action on Friday. It was the first game action he'd seen since suffering a shoulder injury on Dec. 9.

Canada kicks off the tournament on Boxing Day when it takes on Finland.

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