Your savory breakfast links:
- The Hershey Bears are Calder Cup Champs for the second-consecutive year and eleventh time in franchise history. [Patriot-News, Vogs (with plenty of video at Caps365), Masisak, El-Bashir, Frankovic, RMNB (and again), OFB, Peerless, FanHouse, HBH, Hockey Independent, New England Hockey Journal, Caps Snaps]
- How’d they do it? Balance, for one thing. [Peerless]
- Three-time Calder Cup champ Chris Bourque was named playoff MVP. [Patriot-News]
- What might the win mean to the organization? [Live in Red]
- Up a level, the latest Caps free-agent-to-be who officially won’t be back is Brendan Morrison. Thanks for this, BMo. [CI]
- Speaking of likely UFA pivots, Eric Belanger‘s agent is a former defense lawyer (and he sounds perfectly charming). Good luck, GMGM. [The Hockey News]
- Reminder: centers matter. [Toronto Sun]
- Good value? Tomas Fleischmann (sell high!). [ProHockeyTalk]
- The Caps will unveil their 2011 Winter Classic uni’s at CapsCon II. [Capitals]
- The odds are against the Caps taking home hardware from Vegas. [Puck Daddy]
- Speaking of awards, Becca’s giving her two cents on ’em over at VFMS. [View from My Seats]
- Alex Ovechkin is a Lindsay finalist and gets profiled on the union’s site. [NHLPA]
- The Caps have drafted well in recent years. [SBNation.com]
- The Inductinator says no Adam Oates and no Peter Bondra in the Hall of Fame. [Puck Prospectus | Unfiltered]
- Seriously – $20 for $10. How can you beat that? [SB Nation Team Pick (note: this is essentially advertising rather than content)]
- Finally, best of luck to a great professional and a better person, Paul Rovnak, who will be leaving the Caps’ PR shop for a job at University of Minnesota. Now that‘s a tough free agent loss to overcome.