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By the time you read this, we may already have the answer to the question that everyone's asking. Assuming we don't, here's a compendium of what teh internets are saying about the Caps and their head coach.

• For starters, it's clear there is a problem:
  • The Week That Was, Volume 7. [Peerless]
  • A team in search of a work ethic. [WaPo, and again]
  • Outmuscled and outscored. [WashTimes]
  • Identity crisis. [DSP]
  • Getting the swagga back. [Sick Unbelievable]
  • Gloom, doom, agony and despair it's sack-grabbing o'clock, gentlemen. [Puck Buddys]
• Next steps have been debated:
  
  • (Back to) the drawing board. [Dump 'n Chase]
  • Staying the course is no longer an option. [WaPo]
  • Time for a major change? [CSNW]
  • #RallyBalloon was so seven days ago. #PanicBalloon is where it's at. [Caps Outsider]
  • Enough is enough. [NFTN]
• And options considered:
  • #FireBoudreau? [PHT, CBS Sports, DSP, OFB]
    
  • And #HireHunter? [Puck Daddy, WashTimes]
  • To that end, there's been a fair amount of no comment, but some of the comments in the non-commenting are intriguing. [WTOP.com, London Free Press]
• From the Dept. of Probably Not The Best Time For This, NBC Sports has released a new TV commercial featuring Alex Ovechkin... [RMNB]
• ... especially when this type of story is popping up all over. [Edmonton Journal]
• Finally, one year ago, Alan May filed this amicus brief in defense of Bruce Boudreau. If it rang true then, does it still now? [CSNW]