Your savory breakfast links:
- Previews of tonight’s duel with the Devils from Vogs, NHL.com (Hunter), Peerless, KOL, RtR and SB Nation DC, and be sure to check out our SB Nation partner In Lou We Trust for more coverage from the other side of tonight’s match up.
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday’s practice. [Caps365 video (Boudreau, Backstrom), CI (Tenorio), DCEx (McNally), FanHouse (Perez), bridgetds (pics); NHL rosters, by the way, are currently frozen for the holidays]
- The weight of the world has been temporarily lifted off of the Caps’ collective shoulders… for a day or three, at least. [NHL.com (Masisak), CI (Tenorio), Dump ‘n Chase, Puck Daddy (Lambert)]
- Sunday night’s win boosted everyone’s confidence, but perhaps no one’s moreso than Michal Neuvirth. [CI (Carrera)]
- Mathieu Perreault provided the spark on Sunday night. Say it with me: “Now let’s see if he can sustain it.” [CSN Washington (Masisak)]
- To paraphrase John Riggins, loosen up, baby. [CBC (Friedman)]
- The six stages of The Streak (what, no comfortably numb?). [Baltimore Sports Report (Gilmore)]
- When a Alex Ovechkin‘s top five plays of the week are this lame, you know the week wasn’t particularly good. [KOL]
- Yesterday’s media hits:
- Bruce Boudreau on Off The Record… [TSN (video)]
- … and Kirk and Mike… [D.C. Sports Bog, audio]
- … John Erskine on NHL Live!… [Audio]
- Gabby’s seat: still hot? [FanHouse (Botta)]
- Not to get ahead of ourselves, but there’s kind of a big game coming up on Thursday. [ESPN (LeBrun)]
- Burnside, LeBrun and Masisak chat. [ESPN]
- AO is memorable (whatever that means). [CI (Applebaum)]
- The Alex and Sid episode of The Price Is Right aired yesterday and (spoiler alert) the price was wrong. [Best Week Ever (h/t Puck Daddy), Kurtenblog]
- Nicklas Backstrom‘s new ride is a little bit sweet. [Yfrog]
- Bear Tracks! [LDN]
- Finally, happy 32nd birthday to Petr Sykora (yes, the crappy one the Caps briefly employed).