Your savory Christmas Eve morning breakfast links:

• Recaps and other assorted musings on last night's shootout loss from us, Vogs, NHL.com (Masisak), WaPo (Carrera: blog, gamer; Feinstein), DCEX (McNally: blog, gamer), CSN Washington (Beninati), Caps365 video (Boudreau, Ovechkin, players), ESPN (Burnside), Peerless, Frankovic, RMNB, Puckhead, SB Nation DC, TBD, RtR, PHT, Inside Hockey, PensBlog, PensBurgh and clydeorama (pics).
• Thoughts and assorted whatnot on 24/7, Episode 2. [Puck Daddy, D.C. Sports Bog, CI, SB Nation DC, SB Nation DC, RtR, Peerless, Mr. Irrelevant, Box Seats, PensBlog, PHT, KOL]
• Peter Bondra talks Alumni Game. [Capitals Outsider]
• Wanted: more grit. [DCEx (Loverro)]
• Andrew Gordon talks about his first time... scoring an NHL goal. [RMNB]
• A Capital Christmas. [OFB]
• No offense to my good friend Ed, but if the Caps "host" a Winter Classic in Baltimore, I'll throw up in my mouth. [Frankovic]
• One thing Cody Eakin has in spades? Work ethic. [THN]
• Former Cap Scott Walker has a new gig. [Guelph Mercury]