{"id":364427,"date":"2025-12-23T20:06:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364427\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:06:25","slug":"what-christmas-gifts-do-nhl-teams-need-heading-into-the-second-half-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364427\/","title":{"rendered":"What Christmas gifts do NHL teams need heading into the second half of the season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">If you\u2019re reading this, let me remind you that you still have some last-minute shopping to take care of. But back to the hockey: if you could get your favorite team one gift for the holiday season, what would it be?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">On Tuesday\u2019s episode of <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zdm9f3OQ4B8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, Tyler Yaremchuk and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton get ready for the holidays and think on what Christmas gifts some teams could use as we head into the second half of the 2025-26 regular season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Carter Hutton: There\u2019s so many teams at Christmas who could really use a gift right now. For me, it\u2019s the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/buffalo-sabres\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>. I\u2019m going to give them a free pass of cutting one goalie and trading someone out. I think we\u2019re at a point now where the three-goalie monster has been bad; they\u2019ve been on a winning streak, but let\u2019s get to the point where Jarmo Kekalainen \u2014 who has already moved off an assistant GM \u2014 knows it\u2019s time to move off of a goalie. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Tyler Yaremchuk: The results are what they are. I think Alex Lyon has complicated it by winning a whole bunch of starts in a row, and the Sabres are on a hot streak. They\u2019re looking to stay hot heading into the Christmas break, but I do think Kekalainen has had some time bought for him with this little winning streak. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">For me, I want to give a Disneyland-style fast-pass to the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/colorado-avalanche\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>. They are very clearly the best team in the NHL, and maybe you can just cut their schedule down. Let\u2019s take 20 games off for the Avs: they don\u2019t need to get hurt, we know they\u2019re going to finish first, they\u2019re a lock to win the Presidents\u2019 Trophy, so let\u2019s save some teams the embarrassment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">I just think, as a whole, all 31 other fanbases can put their hands up and say \u201cthat team is better than the rest of the us,\u201d and let the Avs get ready for the playoffs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here\u2026<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re reading this, let me remind you that you still have some last-minute shopping to take care&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-364427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}