Your savory breakfast links:
- After an exciting OT comeback win (and with a rare spare day between games), the whole team got a maintenance day. [CSNW]
- Win-and-you’re-in, Michal Neuvirth edition. [PHT, CSNW]
- That sound you just heard was Troy Brouwer exhaling after snapping a long scoreless streak. [WaPo, WashTimes]
- Jay Beagle is workin’ it. [WaPo]
- So is Keith Aucoin, for that matter. [DCEx]
- Sizing up the UFA class of 2012. Oh hai there, Alexander Semin. [NHL.com]
- Ruffles and flourishes – Tomas Vokoun‘s new bucket is positively Presidential … [DaveArt]
- … and Jeff Halpern goes Tribal with this lid. [@MaybeSew]
- Joel Ward, represent. [CSNW]
- In which Justin Bourne takes a look at the Caps’ play without the puck. [Backhand Shelf]
- Third-quarter report card on head coach Dale Hunter: Needs Improvement. [SB Nation, Hockey’s Future]
- The Caps stood pat on trade deadline day. And we’re pretty much okay with that. Aren’t we? [WTOP, WaPo, DSP (and again)]
- Though a couple of guys up in the press box might like a word. [Dump ‘n’ Chase]
- The Caps aren’t the only team with a nervous eye on the standings. The Hershey Bears have gone slumpy-slumpy lately, and the East Division may be slipping away. [Patriot-News]
- Is there life after Evgeny Kuznetsov? With Traktor’s first playoff game today and Kuzya on the sidelines, this postseason primer ponders that very question. With bonus knowledge – Chelyabinsk, with its military mechanical factories, is also known as “Tankograd”. [KHL.ru (Eastern Conference, Western Conference)]
- Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em. Al Iafrate certainly did. [SI]
- Congrats are in order for proud new papa Keith Aucoin, whose wife Maureen gave birth to their first child yesterday in Hershey. Let’s have a baby-blue Rink stick salute for Brayden Michael Aucoin. [Caps Outsider]
- Finally, happy 30th birthday to Brian Sutherby.
