Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on yesterday’s loss from us, Caps365 video (Hunter, Caps players), Vogs, Capitals Voice (audio), NHL.com, WaPo (gamer, blog), WashTimes (gamer, blog, blog, blog), CSNW (gamer, blog, video highlights), DCEx (gamer), 106.7 The Fan (pics), Frankovic, Peerless, RMNB, KOL, DSP, Alex Ovetjkin, hockey yelling, RtR, Rocking the Red in Pittsburgh, and from the Penguins‘ perspective, From the Point and Pens Through My Lens (pics).
- Suddenly front and center. Mathieu Perreault gets a battlefield promotion. [Dump ‘n Chase]
- Well, the game was fun but the real entertainment begins this morning. Enter Brendan Shanahan, the NHL Department of Player Safety, and dueling disciplinary hearings. [NHL.com, Puck Daddy (and again), PHT, Half Smokes, Eye on Hockey, DCEx, WashTimes, DCEx, Empty Netters, Pittsburgh Tribune]
- Related: In which TSN’s esteemed Bob McKenzie files his amicus brief, then takes a Twitter holiday from hockey commentary. [RMNB, SB Nation DC]
- Judgment hour is set for 1:30. [@RealKyper]
- Finally, happy 51st birthday to Timo Blomqvist and happy 33rd birthday to Scott Hannan.