Your savory Saturday brunch links:
- Japers’ Rink Radio hits the interwaves today at 10 Eastern. Pepper and Russell make it two Damiens in two weeks as they welcome returning guest Damian Cristodero, the Bolts’ beat reporter for the St. Pete Times. You can read his Caps-‘Ning preview here and his game recap here. Then they welcome back the irrepressible Joe Beninati. [JRR]
- Caps Red Line returns to CSN Washington this morning at 9 Eastern. The perfect intro for Japers’ Rink Radio, naturally. [Capitals News]
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s win from us, Vogs, NHL.com, WaPo (Carrera: blog, gamer), DCEx (McNally), CSN Washington (Beninati), Caps365 video (Boudreau, players), Frankovic, RMNB, OFB, Puck Daddy, PHT, KOL, Capitals News Network, Capitals Outsider, Puckhead, WC2010, Hockey Ramblings, Caps ‘Round the Clock, and Creative Loafing has the Bolts perspective.
- Hockeyfights.com brings word of rising tensions, and the evening’s fight card. [Hendricks v. Downie, Bradley v. Hall]
- In case you missed the Matt Hendricks/Dwayne Roloson dustup, here ’tis. [Half Smokes (video)]
- The Rinkmeister gets results. [SB Nation]
- C’mon, turn ’em loose, Bruce. They just wanna run free, McPhee. [Puck’n’Hockey]
- Matt Hendricks has taken the long way ’round to the Capitals’ fourth line. [NHL.com]
- Matt Bradley, unsung hero. [Box Seats (Weissman)]
- Andrew Gordon was mic’d up for the skills competition at the AHL All-Star weekend. He’s no Sidney Crosby, that’s for sure. [SHoE]
- The phrase one really doesn’t want to have to fret over at this point in the season: “Goaltending depth.” But the idea of a Hershey net ‘tended by Braden Holtby and Ray Emery is intriguing, no? [Rink Rebel]
- And now that you mention it, the trade deadline approaches. [NHL.com (Masisak), DCEX (McNally)]
- Bold, I say bold predictions for the Eastern Conference. [SB Nation]
- Whither Dmitri Orlov?
- As Metallurg Novokuznetsk’s miserable season draws to a close, here’s a report that says he’s hopping the pond and headed for Hershey. [SportsHaze]
- But here’s his name on Team Russia’s reserve squad under his WJC coach Valery Bragin, slated to train in Moscow and then travel to Denmark for a tournament. [Russian Hockey Federation]
- We know where Evgeny Kuznetsov will be found today – in St. Petersburg at the KHL All-Star Game on the third line of Team Jagr with Sergei Fedorov. He’s also taking part in the “Master Show” skills competition… [KHL, KHL in English]
- …after which he can return to Chelyabinsk and his brand new apartment. [AllHockey.ru]
- Finally, happy 30th birthday, Kris Beech.