Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s game from Vogs, NHL.com, WaPo (Carrera: blog, gamer), CSN Washington (Beninati), Caps365 video (Boudreau, players), RMNB, SB Nation DC, Caps ‘Round the Clock, and WC2010.
- Ouch. Are you okay, Alex? Please be okay. [YouTube]
- And a Swede shall lead them. But which Swede? [Turner Sports Desk]
- Drafting and developing centermen: a history lesson. [Box Seats (El-Alaily)]
- Drafting and developing everyone else: more history. [Box Seats (Weissman)]
- If what you need is grit, grease, and sweet, sweet dekes, Matt Hendricks is your man. [RMNB]
- “One of the most honest athletes when answering journalists’ questions.” Which athlete? Braden Holtby, of course. [OFB TV]
- Hey, how bout that D? [DC Examiner (Loverro)]
- We’ll always have
Paristhe 2010-2011 penalty kill. [CI] - And we’ll always have Ozzy Osbourne … in a Caps sweater. [SteinBog]
- From the Dept. of Questions Best Left Unasked: Whatever happened to the Capstronaut? [Ibid]
- Fortunately we have only to turn on the telly to see @TheHornGuy. [OFB]
- Congratulations are in order for Stingrays D-man Josh Godfrey, who fired a 102.7 mph slapper to set the all-time record for hardest shot at the ECHL All-Star Skills competition. [ECHL News]
- Programming notes:
- Caps Red Line returns for its third season Feb. 5 on Comcast SportsNet… [WashCaps]
- …the Feb. 20 Caps @ Sabres game has been moved from 3pm to 12:30pm… [NHL.com]
- …and the Caps-to-open-the-season-in-Russia rumo(u)rs just might be true. [Alex Ovetjkin]
- Finally, yesterday the Caps wished Wayne Gretzky a happy 50th birthday… [CSNWashington (Raby)]
- …
and today they’ll wish D.J. King a happy 27th birthday (c’mon,Hockey-Reference)and we will all wish Brian Engblom a very happy 57th.
