Your savory breakfast links:
- Japers’ Rink Radio returns to the Intertubes tomorrow morning at 10:00 when Pepper and Russell welcome back the always entertaining Alan May as well as Frank Seravalli of the Philadelphia Daily News look ahead to Saturday night’s showdown with the Flyers.
- Previews of tonight’s game against Atlanta (Really? These guys again?) from Vogs, NHL.com (Mankiewich), Peerless, RLS and KOL, and be sure to check out our SB Nation partner Bird Watchers Anonymous and the AJC for more coverage from the other side of tonight’s match up.
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday’s practice. [Vogs, CI, DCEx, Caps365 (video)]
- Braden Holtby gets the feature treatment. [CSN Washington (Masisak), D.C. Sports Bog, CI (Carrera)]
- Matt Hendricks brings as much to the team off the ice as he does on it. [WaPo (Hamilton)]
- The Bears are “waiting for advisement” from Washington as to whether to play Semyon Varlamov once or twice this weekend. [Patriot-News (Leone)]
- A roundup of yesterday’s radio hits:
- Bruce Boudreau on Elliot In The Morning. [YouTube (Part 1, Part 2)]
- Brooks Laich on The Sports Junkies. [106.7 The Fan]
- Jason Chimera on NHL Live! [NHL Live (audio)]
- Mike Green on LaVar and Dukes. [106.7 The Fan]
- Ted Leonsis on NHL Hour With Commissioner Gary Bettman. [NHL.com]
- Cody Eakin on the HF Podcast. [HF]
- Speakin’ of Eakin, check out his Super Series mo’.
- Why Marcus Johansson is in D.C. and Mathieu Perreault isn’t (and why we should practice some patience with him)… [KG’s District, RMNB, Hockey Independent]
- … and a contrary view. [OFB]
- On Matt Bradley‘s beauty of a tally against the Sabres. [D.C. Sports Bog]
- Hopefully the Caps are ready for “a brutally good time” tonight. [Houses of the Hockey]
- By at least one goofy metric, John Carlson has been one of the League’s top defensive defenseman to date this season. [Hockey Independent]