Your savory breakfast links:
- The latest labor-related news, non-news and assorted whatnot:
- Jason Chimera is heading home after a brief stint in the Czech Extraliga which, unfortunately for Chimera, insists on playing all of its games thousands of miles from his family. (Good choice, Chimmer.) [WaPo, WashTimes]
- Will Roman Hamrlik have a target on his back when play resumes (assuming he’s part of it)? [Puck Daddy]
- And how will things be for him and the rest of the Caps room? (Spoiler alert: they’ll be fine.) [CSNW]
- More on mediation (which takes on another, perhaps more apt meaning, when spoken aloud). [TSN, ESPN (and again ($) and again), WashTimes, NYT]
- The farce is strong in this lockout. [SI]
- What we should be talking about: hockey. What we’re not talking about: hockey. [Backhand Shelf]
- Where we’re talking about what we’re talking about: at the launch for Brad Richards‘ line of untucked dress shirts? [Sporting News]
- #TeamOwners [Arctic Ice Hockey]
- Some pretty impressive careers ended with the last lockout… [Down Goes Brown]
- … but no more than would be expected, generally, so let’s kill that silly talking point. [Edmonton Journal, Puck Daddy]
- The Bears are off to Norfolk to face the Ads tonight, the team they’ll host – at the Verizon Center – next week. [Capitals Voice, with more Bears notes at The Patriot-News (and again) and The Post]
- Dmitry Orlov and Alexander Burmistrov are buddies. (Jeff Schultz and Burmistrov, probably not so much.) [RMNB]
- Riley Barber is shaping up to be an interesting story early on. [USA Today]
- A look at what’s happening in local high school hockey (Go Vikes!). [Capitals]
- Finally, it was one year ago today that the Caps parted ways with Bruce Boudreau and embarked upon the short-lived Dale Hunter Era. (That morning’s pre-firing Clips make for an interesting read.)