Your savory breakfast links:

• Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday*, Monday*, Wednesday*. [Dump 'n Chase]
• The Rangers' 7-0 blowout win over the Caps back in December actually helped the Caps. Really, it did. [WaPo (Carrera, with more on the rest of the season series here), WashTimes (Whyno)]
• Is this the year? [WashTimes (Daly)]
• These Caps are an older, wiser (but hopefully no less successful) lot than the group that dispensed with the Blueshirts two years ago. [CI (Carrera), with a look back at that series at CSN Washington (video)]
• Some thoughts on the series (more or less)... [CI (Carrera), NHL.com, NHL.com (Lozo), Frankovic, PHT (video), NY Post (Brooks), WSJ, NYT, NY Daily News, ESPN ($), Skate Skate Shoot (video), DCEx (McNally), CRtC, Scotty Hockey, OFB, THN (Dobber), Blueshirt Banter]
• ... and some early predictions:
  • Caps in 5. [Sporting News (Custance), RLS]
  • Caps in 6. [Toronto Sun, ESPN (Burnside), Star (Cox)]
  • Caps in 7. [NBC Sports]
  • Rangers in 6. [Versus (Dater)]
• Jason Arnott and destiny. [NHL.com (Masisak)]
• Goalie thoughts (ours). [Peerless]
• Goalie thoughts (theirs). [WSJ]
• Rock the Fed? [EITM]
• You asked, Marcus Johansson answered. [CI (video)]
• Conditioning: the under-discussed key to post-season success. [OFB]
• Congrats to Matt Hendricks on being named the Caps' Masterton Trophy nominee... and we're all thankful he doesn't stand a chance of winning. [Globe and Mail (Mirtle)]
• A bit from the business side of things. [Ross Hollebon's Sports Pub]
  
• Coverage of the Hockey 4 Hope alumni game. [Capitals Outsider, Capitals Outsider]
• On this date back in 1991, Dino Ciccarelli scored in overtime of Game 5 of the Patrick Division Semifinals to give the Caps a 3-2 series lead over the Rangers.
  
• Finally, happy 33rd birthday to Ben Clymer, happy 41st birthday to Trevor Linden, and happy 50th birthday to Ron Jones.