Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s win from the us, the WaPo (blog, gamer, Boswell, blog, blog), Vogs, Puck Daddy, ESPN, DCEx, Joe B., Ed Frankovic, FanHouse, Peerless, FFODC, OFB (and pics), Caps Snaps (great pics), A Capital Offense, MD Pro Sports, the CAPS lock, Hockey Mom and RMNB from the winning side, and the Post-Gazette, Tribune-Review and PensBurgh from the other side.
- Three games, three late blown leads for the Pens. [Corey Masisak]
- Jose Theodore is making his case? How ’bout “case closed”? [NHL.com]
- Putting the Caps’ chances at success on Alexander Semin. [CSN Washington]
- Caps/Pens (pre-game) leftovers. [CI, Pro Hockey Talk]
- Previews of tonight’s game against the ‘Canes from Vogs, Peerless and NHL.com, and be sure to check out our SB Nation partner Canes Country for coverage from the other side of tonight’s match up.
- To refresh your memory, this is the sixth and final meeting on the season between these Southeast Division rivals, with the Caps grabbing 3-2, 4-3 and 4-3 wins and dropping 6-3 and 4-3 decisions.
- A few more updates on the steroids “story” in that post.
- The Caps have the 17th-best team goaltending in hockey. Too high or too low? [TSN]
- A deeper look at the Caps “Ten Best” DVD collection. [Peerless, D.C. Sports Bog]
- E.J. Hradek says Caps/Pens in the 2011 Winter Classic in Pittsburgh. [ESPN]
- Alex Ovechkin as Ivan Drago. Seriously? [Pro Hockey Talk]
- Peter Bondra is the general manager of the Slovak National Team. His new head coach? Glen Hanlon. Right on. [Globe and Mail]
- Finally, happy 37th birthday to Andrei Nikolishin, happy 54th to Dwight Schofieldd and happy 55th to Ted Bulley.