Your savory breakfast links:
- Previews and sorta-previews of preseason game numero seis from coming soon – check the “What We’re Reading” sidebar throughout the day, and be sure to check out our SB Nation partner, Die by the Blade, for more coverage from the other side of tonight’s match-up.
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday out at Kettler:
- In general. [Caps365 video (Kettler Report, Boudreau, Chimera)]
- Did someone say Jason Chimera? Actually, lots of folks were talking about him today after he signed his new two-year, $3.5 million deal. [Japers’ Rink, Dump-n-Chase, CI (Carrera), WashTimes (Whyno), CW (Whyno), DCEx (McNally), PHT, CapsNewsNetwork, Puck-n-Hockey]
- More news from Caps HQ as another round of training camp cuts were announced and Chris Bourque, Patrick McNeill, and Sean Collins punched their tickets back to Chocolatetown.[DCEx (McNally)]
- John Erskine, out of the orange sweater but apparently still on the shelf. [CI (Carrera), CW (Whyno, with a bit more on other injured Caps)]
- What might this defenseman mini-drama mean for Dmitri Orlov ? [CW (Whyno), CSN Washington (Gormley), CI (Carrera)]
- And then there were three: Cody Eakin, Mattias Sjogren, and Mathieu Perreault continue their pas de trois. [CSN Washington (Gormley)]
- Related: If Perreault makes this team, where does he play? [RtR]
- Braden Holtby is literally taking things one day at a time. [CW (Whyno)]
- Troy Brouwer did a radio hit on The Sports Reporters, and confirmed he’s skating tonight on a line with Alex Ovechkin and Marcus Johansson. The J-O-B line? [ESPN 980]
- …and perhaps young Johansson is poised for a breakout sophomore season. Perhaps not. [RMNB]
- Season previews a-plenty. [Puck Daddy, Red Light District, The Faster Times (division, conference)]
- Top Ten Projected NHL goalers. [Hockey Prospectus (Myrland, $)]
- Say hey, power play. [CW (Wyno)]
- So, five games into the preseason, what conclusions may we draw? [CSN Washington (Gormley)]
- “You come for the broken grammar, you stay for the random exclamation points, and leave with a lifetime of accidental wisdom from a two-time NHL MVP.” [SB Nation DC]
- All together now: “Awww.” Or possibly “Ewww.” [Caps Outsider]
- Ask a Flyers teevee analyst about the Caps and Bruce Boudreau, and this happens. [Ross Hollebon’s Sports Pub]
- He’s got a fist full of weagles and a thousand-yard stare: the CapsCon vet… [Caps Outsider]
- … and here’s a real nice collection of videos from the convention. [LuvdCaps on YouTube]