Your savory breakfast links:
- The League released its National television schedules yesterday (a.k.a. Steve Lepore’s Christmas in August), and the Caps are on Versus seven times, CBC five times, TSN or TSN2 a dozen times and NBC up to five times. More importantly, though, is how many Caps games will be blacked out by Versus’ exclusive Monday/Tuesday night slot, and the answer seems to be two or three upon a quick glance.
- Alex Ovechkin took a trip to Siberia to visit Alexander Semin recently. [Alex Ovetjkin]
- The Hockey News likes the Eastern Conference’s top two regular season teams from last season to finish in those same spots again in 2009-10. [The Hockey News]
- Does Stan Kasten think Ovechkin is a basketball player? [D.C. Sports Bog]
- More on the Stephen Strasburg/Ovechkin comparison. [Cap Centre]
- You’d think that when you’re on the cover of a video game they could get your hair color right in the game itself. You’d think wrong. [allehanda.se]
- When David Steckel deflected Brooks Laich’s shot past Marc-Andre Fleury to force a Game 7 in the Caps’ Eastern Conference Semifinal series with the Pens, Nyjer Morgan was in the house… and rooting for the Pens. [D.C. Sports Bog]
- Speaking of Steckel and Laich, this one’s for you, ladies. [@NHL]
- 2007 Leafs draftee Matt Frattin has been dismissed from the University of North Dakota hockey team after being arrested and charged with driving under the influence Wednesday, less than one month after he and Joe Finley were arrested for assorted stupidity last month. [USCHO]