NHL wishes for the Canadian teams in the Eastern Conference

As it is a brand new year in hours I thought what would be a wish that the Canadian teams in the NHL would want for 2012:

Toronto Maple Leafs: The one thing the Leafs would like to fix is the specialty teams especially the penalty kill as they are the only teams kill off 3 of every 4 penalty kills they face as they give up a goal 27.5% (effectiveness on the KP 72.5) of the time and even the Columbus Blue Jackets are less than 25 allowing opponents to score on the power play at 24.8(75.2). So what they need a defenseman who can clear the traffic in front of the net like a Zdeno Chara who could make it easier on the goalies to make the key saves. Also they could go out and get whoever is in charge of the New Jersey Devils penalty kill because they are at the top of the league in penalty kills.

Winnipeg Jets: The Jets would wish to find away to put 3,000 more seats in the arena so to be able to lower the ticket prices because I do not know if the city of Winnipeg and province of Manitoba can handle the second highest prices in the NHL in the long hall and they would also like to play all their games at the MTS Center as they are 13-6-1 @ home this season.

Montreal Canadiens: The Canadiens would like to get a time machine to go back in time and not trading for Scott Gomez so they could get a scoring power forward because the Canadiens' lead scorer is Erik Cole who has 15 goals and Tomas Plekanec who has 29 points in 38 games this season. So they could go out and get like Jerome Iginla or Rick Nash who can better support the cast in Montreal so the Canadiens get more than 4 points for a guy who is making 7.5 million dollars and they hopefully would score more than 97 goals in 38 games.

Ottawa Senators: The Senators who are 18-15-5 and are tied for eighth in the Eastern Conference but has given up more goals than anyone else with 131 in 38 goals so they would like a stronger defenseman to clear the puck out of the zone and to make it easier for Craig Anderson to make the game changing saves to help the Senators win more games in 2012.

Happy New Years

Tom Mehegan