Your savory breakfast links:
● Lots of lockout news and opinion, so let’s dive right in:
○ The NHL is takin’ it to the streets, publishing their proposal right up on their website… [NHL.com, NatPo]
○ … and union boss Don Fehr responds by releasing his letter to the players via the WWL. [ESPN, TribLive, PHT]
○ Fear the Fehr? [Globe and Mail, NatPo]
○ Pierre McGuire has it figured out. [Denver Post]
○ We’ve always been at war with Eastasia. [Lighthouse Hockey]
○ The proposed changes to the capology could put some teams in a world of hurt. [Broad Street Hockey, Backhand Shelf, Puck Daddy]
○ A season in the balance. [ESPN]
○ Concerned players have concerns… [SI, G&M, TSN.ca]
○ …though some of the Caps and the Bears are (at least publicly) cautiously optimistic. [NBC4, Patriot-News]
○ Here’s a good question – something something Nats something, something something RGIII something. When might the local sports columnist choose to spill a couple barrels of ink pixels on the Caps and the lockout? [BrooksLaichYear]
● Where are they now? Lockout alt-hockey edition:
○ Alex Ovechkin logged some more time as a tennis spectator at the Kremlin Cup. [Alex Ovetjkin, sovsport.ru (pics), RIA Novosti, WaPo]
○ Troy Brouwer is joining a few of his 2009-2010 Cup-hoisting ‘mates for a charity match in Chicago… [PHT]
○ …but not before he and his wife welcomed their new daughter Kylie Marie on Sunday. Congratulations![@TramyersCSN]
○ New assistant coach Tim Hunter went back to school… [Patch.com]
○ … and John Walton has signed a short-term deal to take his talents to Milwaukee. [Capitals Voice]
● Back in Hershey, Coach French is already making use of the proximity of the new affiliate in Reading PA, sending Julien Brouillette to the Royals for a one-game tuneup. [Patriot-News]
● Filip Forsberg can skate. And shoot. And take out plexiglass panels with his Leksand Leap™. [Aftonbladet, RMNB]
● Caleb Herbert gets high marks but has big shoes to fill. [Hockey Prospectus]
● Because puppies. [RMNB]
● Finally, happy 33rd birthday to Alex Henry.