Your savory breakfast links:
- Previews of tonight’s tilt with Tampa from Vogs, CSN Washington (Masisak), WaPo (Wang), NHL.com, DCEx, St. Pete Times, Peerless, and RLS, and be sure to check out our SB Nation partner Raw Charge for more coverage from the other side of tonight’s match up.
- No Steve Downie tonight for the Bolts. Too bad. [St. Pete Times]
- On Alexander Semin: “[A] source told ESPN.com on Wednesday that at this point, there is mutual interest from both parties to sit down in the new year and see whether there’s a fit in terms of an extension.” And that is how you make nothing sound like something. [ESPN (LeBrun)]
- Three for Three for games 13 through 15. [RtR]
- Eric Fehr, the pillow. [Blue Meadow Designs Blog (h/t Puck Daddy)]
- This year’s rookies, by the numbers. [PHT]
- A couple of radio hits from yesterday:
- Mike Green on LaVar and Dukes. [106.7 The Fan (audio)]
- Brooks Laich on NHL Live! [NHL Live! (audio)]
- You’re GMGM. You can keep Semin or Laich. Whom do you re-sign? [Hockey Independent]
- Speaking of signings, Alex Ovechkin will be autographing copies of his new DVD at Best Buy in Sterling next week. [@BestBuySterling]
- Big congrats to Steve Kolbe who will call his 1,000th Caps game tonight… [Dump ‘n Chase]
- … and a “thank you” to Ron Weber. [Box Seats]
- Courage Caps is back (sidenote: on this and every day, we thank all who have served and are serving in the armed forces who have made it possible for us to live the lives we live). [Capitals]
- Yesterday’s big League-wide news was the revamped All-Star Game format. Yawn. [Puck Daddy]
- Finally, happy 38th birthday to Steve Konowalchuk.