Your savory breakfast links:

• Previews of tonight's duel with the Ducks from Vogs, NHL.com, WaPo (Carrera), Peerless, SB Nation DC and RtR, and be sure to check out our SB Nation partners Battle of California and Anaheim Calling for more coverage from the other side of tonight's match-up.
• Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday's practice. [Caps365 (video), Dump 'n Chase, CI (Carrera)]
• The Caps have recalled defenseman Patrick McNeill from Hershey. [Dump 'n Chase]
• Does this season make Alex Ovechkin look fat? [Puck Daddy]
• Signs of life from the power play? [CI (Carrera)]
• Has life been too easy for the "Country Club" Caps? [OFB, OFB]
• These games against Western Conference teams are a grind in more ways than one. [CSN Washington (Raby)]
• Ray Whitney is easily confused in his old age (and Keith Jones doesn't like watching the Caps, a feeling which I can almost certainly guarantee is mutual). [D.C. Sports Bog]
• Help me, George McPhee, you're my only hope. [Hockey Independent (Scriven)]
• Would the Caps be interested in Clarke MacArthur? [Leader-Post]
• Or Jason Arnott? [Fire & Ice]
• Or Brad Boyes, Ales Hemsky, Rostislav Klesla, Chris Phillips and/or Tomas Vokoun? [Baltimore Sun]
• We may not know what The Solution to The Problem is, but we know what it isn't. [Box Seats (Cooper)]
• That said, when do you pink-slip the best coach in hockey? [Baltimore Sports Report]
• Be careful what you wish for, Caps fans. [Caps News Network, Peerless]
• Inside the Caps' bromances. (But no mention of the pillow-fightin' Alexes?) [Capitals Outsider]
• As if you needed something to make you like him more, Mike Knuble can't live without beer. [D.C. Sports Bog]
• Love is lingering in the air over at RMNB. [RMNB]
• One-on-one with Braden Holtby (insert Wojtek Wolski joke here). [Post and Courier]
• That Ovi, what with his razors and all. [Alex Ovetjkin]
• Finally, happy 35th birthday to Colin Forbes and happy 57th to Paul Nicholson.