The return of your savory breakfast links:
- Previews of tonight’s season opener (7:00, Versus) from Vogs, NHL.com, Peerless, CapsChick, New England Hockey Journal and Boards and Blades, and be sure to check out SBNation’s event page for the game, the best way to check out what the rest of the network is writing about the match up pre-, in- and post-game.
- Wondering what lines the Bruins were rolling at practice yesterday? Wonder no more. [Bruins Blog]
- Caps Weeks continues at the WaTimes, with Corey’s massive season preview and look at the team’s goal for the year (spoiler alert: it’s winning the Cup). Dan Daly, Tim Lemke and Ryan O’Halloran also offer up contributions today. [The Post’s impressive season preview is here, in case you missed it yesterday.]
- Some more fallout from and takes on the Caps losing Chris Bourque to Pittsburgh on waivers. [Capitals Insider, John Walton Hockey, Rock the Red.net, Capitals Kremlin, Hershey Bears Hockey, Empty Netters, PensBurgh]
- Tarik on Mike Knuble. [Washington Post]
- Caps previews from Illegal Curve, Puck Daddy, CapsChick, OFB, Cap Centre, D.C. Landing Strip and Ross McKeon.
- More evidence that Washington is becoming a hockey town. [AP]
- Eddie Olczyk and Keith Jones weigh in on the Caps. [In the Room]
- Is this awesome or morbid as hell? Both? [D.C. Sports Bog]
- The Caps go nuke-y. [NEI Nuclear Notes]
- When Peerless prognosticates, you read. [Peerless]
- The Caps are sixth in CBS’s power rankings because “run-and-gun hockey will take them only so far.” Wait, didn’t you guys write that about the Oilers in your 1983 preseason power rankings? [CBSSports.com]
- John Thompson may not know hockey, but even he knows Brooks Laich‘s head is on straight. [D.C. Sports Bog; ESPN980 (audio)]
- Yawn. Alex Ovechkin tops another “best players” list (Mike Green comes in 21st). [National Post]
- And another (Green 24th, Alexander Semin 44th, Nicklas Backstrom a laughable 49th). [Sun Media]
- Dmitry’s dispatch from the media luncheon. [Examiner]
- Catching up with Al Iafrate. [Homer McFanboy]
- Alexandre Giroux, seemingly critical of the Caps’ decision to send him back to Hershey, noted, “They focused on four games in preseason instead of 106 games last year.” And by “they” he must mean all 30 NHL teams (both during the summer and this week’s waiver period), and by “focused on four games in preseason” he must mean those and the 22 NHL games he’s played in ten seasons of professional hockey. [Patriot News]
- Slapshot on “The Price Is Right.” Not much more to add to tee this one up. [TPIR]
- Finally, happy 40th birthday to Igor Ulanov and happy 33rd birthday to Yogi Svejkovsky.