Your savory breakfast links:

• Recaps and other assorted musings on last night's loss from us, Caps365 video (Hunter, Caps players), Vogs, Capitals Voice (audio), NHL.com, WaPo (gamer), WashTimes (gamer), CSNW (blog), Frankovic, Peerless, SB Nation DC, RMNB, KOL, DSP, Sick Unbelievable and hockey yelling.
  • The Kings' Jack Johnson Tebowed after his goal. FML. [Puck Daddy, WashTimes, WaPo, DC Sports Bog]
    
• Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday's morning skate:
  • In general. [Caps365 video (Two-Man Advantage, Hunter), WashTimes]
  • Nicklas Backstrom and Mike Green were sent back to D.C. prior to the game last night. Unfortunately for Backstrom, that's a lot of flying (for no game time) for a guy with an apparent head injury. [Dump 'n Chase, Capitals Voice (audio), WaPo, WashTimes]
    
• Thanks to my pal Danny Rouhier for putting me on the ol' radio again last night. [106.7 the Fan (audio)]
• Secondary scoring, where art thou? [WaPo]
• Either teams aren't fearing the Caps offense any more, or the schedule has just broken in a quirky way. Or both. [WashTimes]
• Another round of "What to do with Fifty-Two." [DSP]
• Alex Ovechkin is once again a primetime fantasy (and reality) player. Now the key is sustaining it... [Puck Daddy]
• ... otherwise, we're left asking the question with no right answer. [Peerless (also, the Winter Classic was pretty sweet)]
• January should be a pretty good month for the Caps. Starting... now! [Sick, Unbelievable]
• Nothing new - lots of eyes will be on the Caps in the second half. [NHL.com]
• The Caps have reassigned forward Danick Paquette (acquired, you'll recall, for Eric Fehr last summer) to Utah of the ECHL. "Unofficially, Danick had become a problem. One of those additions by subtraction kind of things." What a guy. [Rays the Roof]
• A look back at the Bears' outdoor game. [Stack the Pads]
• Hockey's Future names it's Prospect of the Month for December (hint: he's probably not Eric Francis's Prospect of the Month for December). [HF]
• Finally, happy 22nd birthday to Real American Hero John Carlson and happy 32nd to Rastislav Stana.