Your savory breakfast links:
- The latest on the lockout:
- That sound you don’t hear is people finally taking negotiating seriously. [TSN, ESPN, AP, CSNW, Backhand Shelf]
- Time to ditch the pretenses, fellas. [National Post]
- Can “make whole” make it work for everyone? [Globe and Mail]
- Of hawks and doves (and pour a little out for one of DC’s late great watering holes). [Sportsnet, CBC]
- What are the League’s non-starters in negotiations? [Puck Daddy]
- Money, get back. I’m alright, Jack, keep your hands off my stack. New car, caviar, four star daydream, think I’ll buy me a hockey team. [Globe and Mail, with more money issues at CBS]
- Never tell me the odds. [PHT, CBS]
- Checking in on the crop of exported NHLers in Europe. [Down Goes Brown]
- The latest from up the road in Hershey, where Dmitry Orlov is still sidelined… [Patriot-News, and for more on Orlov and Braden Holtby, hit up DCEx]
- … and Patrick McNeill is finding it hard to get into the lineup. [Patriot-News]