WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 13: Nicklas Backstrom #19 of the Washington Capitals celebrtaes the third period game winning goal by Alex Ovechkin #8 against the New York Islanders at the Verizon Center on October 13 2010 in Washington DC. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
Your savory breakfast links:
- Previews of tonight's rematch of Saturday night's game on Long Island from Vogs, NHL.com (Compton), Peerless, SB Nation DC and RtR, and be sure to check out our criminally underrated SB Nation partner Lighthouse Hockey for more coverage from the other side of tonight's match-up.
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday's practice. [CI (Carrera, Schimmel), DCEx (McNally), bridgetds (pics)]
- The big non-trade news from yesterday is that Mike Green will miss a "couple of weeks" as he recovers from a head injury and that Tom Poti and Eric Fehr have been retroactively placed on Long-Term Injured Reserve. [CI (Applebaum)]
- On Fehr, it's been slow-goin', but he's getting close to a return. [DCEx (McNally)]
- And now for more trade deadline coverage than you can possibly consume:
- GM George McPhee talks about the day. [Caps365 (video), CI (Carrera)]
- McPhee also called in to LaVar and Dukes. [106.7 The Fan (audio)]
- General impressions on the day, (inter)national media. [Puck Daddy, ESPN (LeBrun/Burnside, Burnside), USA Today (Allen), The Hockey News (Campbell, Puck Panel (video)), Yahoo! (Cotsonika), PHT]
- General impressions on the day, local media. [WaPo (Carrera), CSN Washington (Raby), KOL, WC2010, Capitals News Network, Hockey Independent (Scriven), RMNB, Frankovic, OFB, Puckhead, TBD (Chamberlain), WashTimes (Starkey), StC, Puck 'N Hockey, ABC7 (video), Ross Hollebon's Sports Pub, Cap Centre, Hockey Mom, CRtC]
- General impressions on the day, Central Pennsylvania/South Carolina media. [Patriot-News (Leone), Rays the Roof]
- The official trade call on the Dennis Wideman deal. [Caps365 (video)]
- On the Wideman trade. [Dump n' Chase, CI (Carrera, Carrera), DCEX (McNally), CSN Washington's Lunchbox Live (video), On Frozen Pond (video of Wideman), CSN Washington (Raby), WashTimes (Starkey), Frankovic, KOL, Capitals News Network, TSN (Cullen), PHT, TBD (Chamberlain)]
- Wideman speaks. [NHL Live! (audio), CI (Carrera), SB Nation DC]
- On the Jason Arnott trade. [Puck Daddy, ESPN's Barry Melrose (video) NHL.com (Raby), DCEx (McNally), CI (Carrera), SB Nation DC, RtR, TBD (Chamberlain)]
- On the flip-side of the Arnott trade, David Steckel. [Blonde Girl's Guide]
- Scott Hannan, on deadline day. [RtR]
- GM George McPhee talks about the day. [Caps365 (video), CI (Carrera)]
- Wondering what Donald Brashear is up to? Wonder no more. [The700Level]
- Bear Tracks! [LDN]
- Happy 29th birthday to Brian Sutherby.
- Finally, thanks to everyone who made yesterday the single biggest day (I think) in Rink history. Traffic was huge, and your 4,300-plus comments (and counting) on yesterday's posts is insane. Cheers.


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