Your savory Sunday brunch links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s win from us, Vogs, WaPo (Carrera: blog, gamer), CSN Washington (Beninati), Caps365 video (Boudreau, players), Peerless, Frankovic, RMNB, Caps News Network, Caps Outsider, PHT, KoL, Puckhead, Puck Daddy, Caps ‘Round the Clock, WC2010 and the Toronto Star (pics).
- Hustle. And flow. [Alex Ovetjkin]
- The Toronto/Canadian press corps in full effect:
- Did the Leafs deserve better? Alex Ovechkin and Braden Holtby say no. [The Globe and Mail (Shoalts)]
- Maybe the Washington Capitals listened to R.J. Umberger after all. [CBC (Wharnsby)]
- A trip to Toronto was just what the goal-scoring doctor ordered. With a chaser of an unhappy Jean-Sebastien Giguere. [National Post (Traikos)]
- A hat trick of horrors. [Toronto Star (Hunter)]
- The sleeping giant awakes? [TSN (wire story, highlights)]
- Matt Hendricks had the deke-tastic Highlight o’ the Night… [SportsCentre (video)]
- …and a short and somewhat bloody fight with Mike Brown. [HNiC video]
- Hometown hero Holtby… [Sun Media]
- …has “excellent eyebrows” among other observations from Don Cherry… [HNiC Coach’s Corner (video via @LloydFM)]
- …and also causes Tyler Bozak to shrug in disgust. [Eat. Sleep. Leafs.]
- Game shifter! [Sportsnet.ca]
- Oh hai there 2011 NHL All-Star Game presented by Discover, and congratulations to Mike Green, named Alternate Captain of Team (yes) Staal. [Puck Daddy, Caps Insider, DC Pro Sports Report, Musings of a Hockey Mom]
- Here’s Damien Cox, unloading on Uncle Ted once again, but with a somewhat surprising conclusion. [Toronto Star]
- Finally, Timo Blomqvist turns 50 today and Scott Hannan turns 32. Wishing them both a very happy birthday indeed.