Your savory breakfast links:

• The latest labor-related news, non-news and assorted whatnot:
  • Apocalypse... now? [Grantland, Sportsnet (and again), Puck Daddy, Backhand Shelf, CBC, Globe and Mail, SI, THN, WashTimes, DCEx, Peerless]
  • Jason Chimera weighs in. [PHT]
  • The Owners have picked the hill on which they'll die, per General Daly E. Lee. [WashTimes, and for more on the underlying issue, mc79hockey, The Book and PHT]
  • It's billed as "NHL vs. NHLPA," but that's just shorthand for "Jeremy Jacobs vs. Donald Fehr." [CSN Bay Area]
  • Taiwanese animation. 'Nuff said. [Puck Daddy]
  • And despite the goat rodeo of the past couple of days, optimism for a season prevails. [ESPN, Sports Business News]
• If and when the lockout ends, Adam Oates will be ready to coach-up the Caps (unless, presumably, he's like 90-years-old by then). [Capitals, CSNW, College Hockey Radio Show (audio)]
• Alex Ovechkin continues to do hizzzzzzzzzz.... sorry, I nodded off there for a moment. [RMNB]
• All of Alaska belongs to Joey Crabb (who, you'll recall, is a theoretical Washington Capital). [USA Hockey Magazine]
• Leftovers from Thursday night's AHL Showcase. [DC Sports Bog, Ted's Take, WaPo (video), Puck 'N Hockey]
• One night after downing Norfolk at Verizon Center, the Bears beat Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on the road. [Patriot-News, Capitals (and video), SHoE]
• Mark French compares Cam Schilling to Karl Alzner, but without context one can assume the implied similarities lie in their mutual Germanic surnames. [CSNW]
• Evgeny Kuznetsov may be insane... insanely good at hockey, that is. And insane. [RMNB]
• Finally, Rod Langway was a guest on Hockey This Morning on Friday. [Facebook (link to audio)]