Your savory breakfast links:
- Previews of tonight’s truculent tryst with Toronto from Vogs, NHL.com (Rosen), Peerless, SB Nation DC, RtR, WC2010 and CRtC, and be sure to check out our SB Nation partner (and quite probably the best team-centric hockey blog out there) Pension Plan Puppets for more coverage from the other side of tonight’s match-up.
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday’s practice. [Caps365 video (Boudreau, players), CW (here, here), CI (Carerra: here, here; Tenorio: here), DCEx (McNally), 106.7 The Fan (Kerstein), bridgetds (pics)]
- The battle for a sweater among the bottom-six forwards is coming down to the wire. [WaPo (Tenorio)]
- On the blueline, however, if you can skate, you can play. [WashTimes (Whyno)]
- The Caps are in a dogfight for first in the Conference. [AP]
- Why ask whether it’s time to panic when you can know when it’s time? [Insider2]
- Brooks Laich spoke of Jason Arnott‘s impact on the Caps yesterday on Elliot in the Morning. [RMNB, D.C. Sports Bog, with more at PHT]
- What the Leafs can learn from the Caps (or, more precisely, one of the many things the Leafs can learn from the Caps). [The Star (Cox)]
- The one safe prediction regarding this spring’s Caps: no one has a clue how it’s gonna end. [Puck ‘N Hockey]
- Handing out the hardware, locally. [Chirps From The Ledge]
- How about one more year, Mike Knuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuble? [Knuble’s Knights]
- After dispensing with Bruce Boudreau, Alex Ovechkin advances to face Ted Leonsis in a winner-take-all match-up. What? [MyFoxDC.com]
- More on AO’s star-studded weekend. [D.C. Sports Bog, SB Nation DC]
- Breaking: Ovi needs a Cup (and you’ll never guess whose name they mention as a primary reason why). [TSN]
- Ovechkin’s top plays of the week. [CSN Washington (video)]
- You asked, Jay Beagle answered. [CI (video)]
- A Caps/Leafs mash-up? Nothing new. [Puck Daddy]
- Oh, sweet, another Caps Rap. [Capitals Outsider]