Your savory breakfast links:
- Some late-breaking news from last night: Adam Oates and his coaching staff are returning to DC.
- Oates: “I got to meet some of the young guys in the organization, and I got to get some head coaching experience.” [Dump ‘n’ Chase]
- Mark French: “I think everybody learned a lot in the time we were together. I thought all four individuals made it work as well as it possibly could.” [Patriot-News]
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins 4 (30 shots on goal), Hershey Bears 0 (15 shots on goal). [SHoE, @WashCaps]
- Yay, lockout:
- In which Roman Hamrlik takes a well-placed swing at the ant hill … [Rink, Puck Daddy]
- … and his former Habs teammate Erik Cole rushes in for damage control … [TSN]
- … and BizNasty pretty much agrees with the Hamrman. [Puck Daddy]
- #theplayers made a proposal to the League. [Globe & Mail]
- Conjunction junction. [USA Today, CBC, Edmonton Journal, Puck Daddy]
- The latest in post-proposal he said/she said. [Puck Daddy (and again), ESPN, SI, Sportsnet]
- D is for … decertification? [Globe and Mail]
- Finally, five years ago today a Hershey Bears head coach bid his team farewell, checked the directions to DC, and peeled out of the Giant Center parking lot. Uncanny. [Japers’ Rink]
- Congrats are in order for the ECHL Reading Royals, who used the occasion of a visit by the South Carolina Stingrays to post their tenth straight win. [@RRoyals]
- We at the Rink wish everyone a healthy, happy, and still-hopeful Thanksgiving.