Your savory breakfast links:
- Ruminations on what’s goin’ on. [Puck Daddy, RMNB, Caps News Network, TFP, RtR, StC, RtR, Blonde Girl’s Guide, Capitals Outsider, DC Landing Strip]
- The “adversity is a good thing” angle. [Versus (Dater), Houses of the Hockey]
- The “statement fight as turning point” angle. [USA Today (Bourne), NHL.com (Rosen)]
- The “their goaltending isn’t good enough” angle. [WaPo (Feinstein), ESPN (Burnside)]
- The “they’re not mentally tough enough” angle. [CBC (Friedman)]
- The “kick a man while he’s down” angle. [Toronto Star (Cox)]
- Is Bruce Boudreau‘s job in jeopardy? [Inside Hockey, The Hockey Writers]
- On “peaking early” and “losing now.” [RLS]
- Media hits:
- Boudreau was on Kirk and Mike yesterday… [105.9 The Edge (audio)]
- … and Alan May was on The Sports Fix. [ESPN 980 (audio)]
- Brooks Laich will be on The Sports Junkies at 8:45 this morning… [106.7 The Fan]
- … and Boudreau will be chatting on ESPN.com at 2:00 this afternoon. [ESPN]
- In case you missed it yesterday, Andrew Gordon got the one birthday present he didn’t want, as he was sent back to Hershey. He’ll be back. [Capitals]
- Ted Leonsis is influential. [D.C. Sports Bog]
- Alex Ovechkin, come on down! [TV by the Numbers]
- Call it the Mites on Ice Winter Classic. [RMNB]
- Cody Eakin is your WHL player of the week. [WHL]
- Finally, happy 44th birthday to Bill Ranford and happy 49th to Peter Sundstrom.