Your savory breakfast links:

• Recaps and other assorted musings on last night's loss from Corey (blog, article), Tarik (blog, article), Vogs, Joe B., Ed Frankovic, Peerless, and Fight For Old D.C..
• Good news! Alex Ovechkin's injury isn't even among the ten most impactful early season hurts. [The Hockey News]
• "Playoff hockey" in November? Maybe not as crazy as it sounds. [HomerMcFanboy]
• Bruce Boudreau officially endorses Mike Green for Team Canada, which is certainly not "an about face from last spring" for Gabby (seriously, who writes this stuff?). [NHL.com]
• Is Green as high as fourth on the Team Canada depth chart? [Hockey Or Die!]
• Nicklas Backstrom on Grate Patrol. [Hockey Mom]
• The "Gifted" Paradox. [Peerless]
• Brendan Morrison's "Survivorman" adventure, now with video. [FanShot]
• Perhaps the weirdest set of hockey cards I've seen yet, given that it contains this Alex Ovechkin card and this... fish? [The Beckett Blog (bonus: for more on the fish, click here... you know you want to)]
• They're going to miss Michael Nylander in Grand Rapids. With any luck, we'll get the chance to miss him here, too. [Griffins]
• What do you get the Caps fan who has everything? Not this. [Amazon.com via @nateewell]
• In his dreams, perhaps, Keith Aucoin envisioned notching a hat trick against the Devils last night. Well, his dream came true... sorta. [Patriot-News]
• Speaking of Aucoin, happy 31st birthday, Keith, happy 51st to Paul MacKinnon, and happy 52nd to both Nelson Burton and Rollie Boutin.