Your savory breakfast links:

• Previews of tonight's clash with the Kitties from Vogs, NHL.com, Peerless, Caps Basketball, CRtC and RMNB, and be sure to check out our SB Nation partner Litter Box Cats for more coverage from the other side of tonight's match-up.
  • Injury update: Roman Hamrlik and Alexander Semin are on the Florida/Ottawa road trip with the team. Mike Green and Jay Beagle are still listed as week-to-week and did not travel. [WashTimes]
• The Week That Was, Volume 8. [Peerless]
  • Goal by goal by Vogel. [Dump n' Chase]
  • Ranking the Caps' top six players, as the Hunter Era begins. [KOL]
  • Taking a stab at the ol' #fancystats, 25 games in. [RMNB]
  • Patience, young Padawan. [StC]
    
• NHL Realignment - all the cool kids are talking about it. [CBC.ca (video), Puck Daddy, USA Today, NY Post, WashTimes, WaPo, CSNW, OFB]
• Winning is good for morale. Who knew? [WashTimes]
• Consistent goalies should be consistent. [WaPo]
• These Ottawa post-game notes also take a look at changes to the penalty kill and power play. [DCEx]
• John Walton interviewed Troy Brouwer following the Ottawa game. [Capitals Voice]
• Your takeaway from this article is that Evgeny Kuznetsov seems to be ready to negotiate with the Caps. Pay no never mind to the contract detail information - that's for finer minds than ours. [CSNW]
• The Hershey Bears finished a 3-in-3 weekend with three wins, six points, a tie for first in the East, and some groovy pre-game photos. [SHoE (gamer, pics)]
  
• The now clean-shaven Caps cleaned up in Movember. [Caps Outsider]
  
• Some cool pix of the Gallery Place Metro station and MCI Center under construction from back in the day. [Metro Forward]
• Finally: "I’m not going to say these are the best hockey fans in the country, because I’m from Philly, and I’d like to go home at some point, and also I have friends in Detroit that would cut me. But I will put them in the top 5, and if you disagree, you are going to need to come to a game with me, because your opinion, while valued, is wrong." [Stadium Journey]