Your savory breakfast links:

• A look at the architect(s) and architecture of the rebuild. [Peerless]
  
• Buy or sell that there are a dozen better right wings in hockey than Alexander Semin? [Puck Daddy]
• The Boss recognizes the need to improve with the extra man. [Ted's Take]
  
• Nice summer reading - an article from way back in Jeff Halpern's rookie season. [CI (Applebaum/LaCanfora)]
• With experience in a League with plenty of Europeans, poor officiating and embarrassing diving, John Carlson might have a leg up on fellow celebs in a charity soccer game. [WaPo, Celebrity Soccer Challenge]
• Which post-lockout Caps knuckle-chuckin' has been the most memorable? [FanPost]
  
• Olie Kolzig raised nearly $300k for the Carson Kolzig Foundation last weekend. Bravo. [Tri-City Herald]
• Speaking of former Caps, heavy stuff on the Geoff Courtnall front, with a hopefully happy ending. [Times Colonist]
• The South Carolina Stingrays have a new bench boss in Spencer Carbery (who is younger than at least nine Caps). [YouTube, ECHL, Post and Courier]
  
• Finally, happy 42nd birthday to Jason Woolley and happy 65th to John Adams, owner of the highest career goals against average in franchise history.