Your savory breakfast links:
- If you missed any of the coverage of yesterday’s announcement that Arturs Irbe has been named Caps Goaltending Coach (replacing Dave Prior), here’s some of the best of it:
- Video here.
- A must-read from Vogs here.
- Welcome to the Show on Irbe’s Caps connections.
- Blog coverage at Capitals Insider (on the news, Bruce Boudreau on the goaltending situation, Irbe’s “challenge,” and Jose Theodore’s state of mind) and Storming the Crease, among other places.
- For what it’s worth (i.e. absolutely nothing), Irbe was 8-12-5/2.65/.903 with two shutouts in his career against the Caps.
- In other news, Eric Fehr is back on the ice and knows this season is a big one for him. [Winnipeg Sun]
- The AHL has released its schedule, so now you know when and where you can see… [John Walton Hockey]
- … the League’s 13th-best sweaters in person. [The Hockey News]
- It’s survey time over in CapsChick’s corner of the Interwebs. [VFtCS]
- Steinz has a Ranger fan friend (first mistake) who “is forever chiding Capitals fans for choosing Ovechkin, Green and little else in their jersey purchases.” Huh. [D.C. Sportsbog]