Your savory breakfast links:
- Rookie Camp rolls on:
- New times for the veteran skates for today and tomorrow.
- Great stuff from Tarik, including a transcription of Semyon Varlamov’s media session (and a couple of equipment notes) and his notes on the day.
- More on Varly. [Washington Times]
- Video of Bruce Boudreau’s post-practice scrum, the Varly interview and John Carlson.
- After narrowly missing last year, Michael Dubuc will again try to make the Bears’ roster this fall. [Patriot News]
- Steinz on Anton Gustafsson‘s workout video, Ryan Jasinsky‘s MMA training, and Jake Hauswirth‘s football background (speaking of football, two WaPo writers out at Kettler? Are the ‘Skins cooked already?). [Bog]
- If kids doubled over from gassers wasn’t real enough for you, “The Real World” stopped by Camp. [Bog]
- Pictures! [TTT Hockey, Caps In Pictures (and again)]
- CapsChick on the weekend at KCI. [VFtCS]
- Brett Flemming impressed Braden Holtby (among others). [DCist]
- One fan’s view on who makes the cut and who doesn’t… for Hershey. [Hershey Bears Hockey]
- Allan Muir pegs the blueline battles as the story of Caps camp (refreshing to see someone go with something other than “the goalies”). [SI.com]
- Up in NYC they’re preparing for Alex Ovechkin day, but it sounds as if AO has already some fun in the Big Apple. [Welcome to the Show]
- Mike Green is getting a hang of this whole Twitterin’ thing. [@GreenLife52]
- Sergei Fedorov‘s old man (insert zinger here) is accusing the Caps of setting his son and Viktor Kozlov up to fail, statistically, so as not to keep their future salaries down. If only the Caps hadn’t played Kozlov with Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom and Fedorov with Alex Semin so often, the two elder Russians might really have been able to put up some numbers. [Hockey Observer]
- I’m sure you’re reading Peerless every day (multiple times per day, in fact), but in case you missed his preview of Jeff Schultz, go and read it. Now. We’ll wait. [Peerless]
- Happy 43rd birthday to Kevin Hatcher (tenth in franchise history in games played, assists and points and the NHL’s last 30-goal scoring defenseman before last season) and happy 56th to Nelson Pyatt, who led the 1975-76 team in scoring (while finishing with a minus-56 rating, the 15th-worst single-season mark of all-time).
- Finally, on this date back in 1982, the Caps traded Ryan Walter and Rick Green to Montreal for Rod Langway, Doug Jarvis, Craig Laughlin and Brian Engblom. Best. Trade. Ever. (Sorry, Ted Montgomery.) If you’re not up on your history – or even if you are – make sure to read Vogs’ fantastic take on the trade that saved the franchise.