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.