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• Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday out at Kettler:
  • In general. [Caps365 video (daily recap, Boudreau, Mitchell), CSN Washington (video), Caps In Pictures]
  • Good on a local television morning show for goin' camping. [My Fox DC (pics and video)]
  • Apparently yesterday was Garrett Mitchell day. [CI (Carrera), CW (Whyno)]
  • And Dmitry Orlov day. [WashTimes (Whyno), DCEx (McNally), CI (Carrera), CSN Washington (Gormley)]
  • David de Kastrozza wants to be the next Eric Fehr or Jason Chimera. [KOL]
  • Here's a closer look at Philipp Grubauer's bucket. [Stack The Pads]
• Elsewhere, now Jeff Halpern's circle is complete. [106.7 The Fan (Elfin)]
• Every time someone writes a well-supported defense of Jeff Schultz, an angel gets its wings. [Insider²]
• The whole versus the sum of its parts. [Peerless]
• Buy or sell the Caps having a worse goal differential in 2011-12 than they had in 2010-11? [Hockey Analysis]
• Catching up with Caps legend Kelly Miller. [Caps365 (video)]
• Ted Leonsis continued his local sports radio tour with a call into The Sports Reporters (in which he reiterated his support for George McPhee, Bruce Boudreau and Alexander Semin).... [ESPN980 (audio)]
• ... a day after checking in with Elliot In The Morning (in which he reiterated his support for Semin). [DC Sports Bog, CI (Carrera)]
• And speaking of Semin, must he "realize that, for the first time, Boudreau has several significant options to threaten him with"? (And those options are ostensibly "Mike Knuble, Troy Brouwer and Joel Ward," not "healthy scratches, lost power-play time and going to bed without dessert.")  [CBC (Friedman)]
• On Knuble, does he have 24 more goals in him for 2011-12? [RtR]
• Are the Caps gaining fans in high - real high - places? [The Catholic Review]
• Never tell me the odds. [Kurtenblog]
• On the few battles that remain heading into camp. [RLD]
• Here's a wide-ranging interview with Evgeny Kuznetsov that includes this gem: "Each time you play Canadians it gives you three or four years of experience." [Alex Ovetjkin]
• There's reason to still expect Steffen Soberg to play in North America in 2011-12. [Buzzing the Net]
• Ten days until our Caps Convention After Party. Get your tickets now. [RSVP]
  
• Finally, happy 61st birthday to Orest Kindrachuk.