Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s stinker from Corey (blog, gamer), Tarik (blog, gamer), Ed Frankovic, DCEx, TTT Hockey (pics), RMNB, StC and Canes Country.
- Reactions to the Jason Chimera deal from DCEx, Elliotte Friedman (whose 30 Thoughts include plenty of Caps bits, among them his pick for next captain, with which I respectfully disagree), The Cannon, Ed Frankovic, Fight For Old DC, Puck-rakers and Hockey or Die!…
- … and a few words on the departed players from Brooks Laich (I’m getting verklempt!), Tic Tac Toe Hockey, Peerless, D.C. Landing Strip, and the former captain himself.
- Hey, Chimera was surprised, too. [Dispatch]
- Oh, and Milan Jurcina was part of the trade as well. [DCEx]
- So who’ll be next to wear the “C” anyway? [TWT]
- Wait… does an NHL magazine really refer to Alex Ovechkin as “Alone at the Top”? [NHL.com]
- Great stuff on Eric Fehr‘s (breakthrough?) season. [FanHouse]
- Fresh power rankings are out, with the Caps up two to second at CBC and CBS Sports, and up one to second at Sporting News.
- Puck Daddy’s year-end retrospective is just awesome. Set aside some time to fully enjoy it. [Puck Daddy]
- On Mike Green‘s Olympic fate. [DCEx]
- Fabulous ESPNFail. [Twitpic]
- A couple more reactions to Alexander Semin‘s contract extension. [5ive Hole, On Frozen Blog]
- Only one forward averaged more ice time per game in the 2000’s than Alex Ovechkin. [Behind The Net]
- Peerless is counting down the Top 10 Caps stories of the year, and has posted number 10, number 9 and number 8 for your reading pleasure.
- An NHL bucket list that doesn’t include partying with AO? Unpossible. [Rock The Red.net]
- Checking in on Francois Bouchard in Hershey. [John Walton Hockey]
- Bear Tracks! [LDN]
- Per the HHoF, on this date back in 1975, “Washington Capitals fired GM/Coach Milt Schmidt, midway thru the team’s second season in the NHL. Two days later Max McNab replaced Schmidt as GM, and Tommy McVie took over as coach.” Not good times.
- Finally, happy 28th birthday to Jakub Cutta.