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.