Your savory breakfast links:

• Previews of tonight's capital battle in Ottawa from Vogs, NHL.com, Peerless, RtR, CRtC and RMNB, and be sure to check out our SB Nation partner Silver Seven for more coverage from the other side of tonight's match-up.
  
• Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday's practice:
  • Injury update: everyone skated, be it in Sunrise or Ballston. [WashTimes]
  • Everyone except newly-injured Matt Hendricks, that is. [WashTimes]
  • Looking for an offensive spark (after a four-goal game?), Dale Hunter puts Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom and Alexander Semin back together. [WaPo, WashTimes]
• Monster story on the captain and his (and his team's) struggles. [SI]
• Is discipline a problem for these Caps? Well, it was on Monday night. [WashTimes]
• Frustrating frustrations are frustrating. [WaPo]
• ♫ Realignment and it feels so good ♪ [NHL.com, WaPo, WashTimes, Puck Daddy, ESPN ($), OFB]
• A little ditty about Jason Chimera and Mike Knuble. [Dump 'n Chase]
• What's wrong with the Caps? Alan May knows. [CSNW (video)]
• Time to vote for the Caps' "biggest moments of 2011." (Good thing they won a playoff round - it'd have been pretty brutal to think the year peaked on January 1 and it's been downhill since.) [WaPo]
• Reviewing the 24/7 DVD. [DVD Talk, OFB]
• A calendar of dogs with their local hockey-playing owners. [Capitals]
• Get to know (if you don't already) Dean Evason. [Mount Vernon Patch]
• Notes from Tuesday's Bears practice. [Patriot-News]
• Philipp Grubauer is turning heads down in the E. [DSP]
• Finally, yesterday's Day Three of the "Dude in Western PA writes something ridiculous; world calls him on it" news cycle took to the Internet radio waves. [Puck Daddy, SB Nation DC, PHT]