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Dear Santa: a time machine to go back to last season.

Dallas Stars

Shooter Tutor ~ Jason Pominville and Thomas Vanek

Nashville Predators

The Nashville Predators have been one of the league’s most surprising teams this year. With a 19-8-2 record, they seem to be en route to return to the playoffs after a two-year absence. In Nashville, attendance is up (16,844 fans per game versus 16,600 last year), and goals-against are down.

Goaltender capgeek.com St. Louis will have about $3.5 million in cap space come the deadline.

Dear Santa: More fans at our games. On average the Scottrade Center is at 91.8% capacity, which puts them in 22nd in league: too low for such an entertaining team.

Winnipeg Jets

Finally, the Winnipeg Jets. They are yet another Central Division team that has went the way of their goaltending. In this case, the “Masters of the meshed mansions” (credit Joe Bowen) have kept the playoffs within reach for the franchise. Both Ondrej Pavelec and Michael Hutchinson have put up impressive numbers.

It is a good thing that the netminders have carried the team because, despite being a top-10 Corsi percentage team, the Jets rank 29th in 5-on-5 shooting percentage and average fewer than 1.9 even-strength goals per game.

If the Jets are going to challenge for the final wildcard spot in the Western Conference, they are going to have to get more production from their forwards; with only three skaters over 20 points, the team is not very deep and will need help putting the puck in the net.

Dear Santa: More scoring and a playoff spot. The fans in Winnipeg deserve it.