Your savory breakfast links:

• Previews of today's Game 4 with the Bruins from Vogs, NHL.com, NBCSports.com (video), BGlobe, Peerless, RMNB (with signage!), Puck 'N 'Hockey, Nosebleeds, Rocking the Red in Pittsburgh, CRtC and RtR , and be sure to check out our SB Nation partner Stanley Cup of Chowder for more coverage from the other side of tonight's match-up and throughout the series.
• Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday's Caps practice:
  • In general. [Caps365 video (Rinkside Update, Hunter, Backstrom, Ovechkin, Holtby, Knuble, Hendricks, Johansson, Brouwer), NHL.com, WaPo, WashTimes, DCEx, CSNW, CRtC]
  • The Caps respond to the League's ruling that Nicklas Backstrom 's suspension has been upheld. [Team statement, NHL.com, WashTimes, CSNW (video), CSNNE, DCEx, BGlobe, HuffPo]
    
  • The B's react. [WashTimes, ]
  • Backstrom has his say. [WaPo, WashTimes, CSNW]
    
  • Hunter: Boston is headhunting my player. Julien, B's: GTFO [NHL.com, WashTimes, CSNW, 106.7 The Fan, CSNNE, BGlobe, BHerald]
  • Jason Chimera unleashes some fury. [DCEx]
  • Tomas Vokoun discusses his "pretty severe" groin tear. Yikes. [WaPo, WashTimes]
    
  • Jay Beagle on off-days and chess matches. [WaPo]
• Notes from the B's end of the ice:
  • John Erskine? Bring it! [NESN]
  • The forward lines will look a lot like Game 3's. [CSNNE]
  • It's not yet Tuukka Time. [CSNNE]
• Backstrom loses his head by protecting it. [DCEx]
• Rise up. [WashTimes]
• The NHL is letting things get out of hand. [WaPo]
• Filling a Backstrom-shaped hole in the Caps' lineup is an all-too familiar task. [NHL.com]
• More hitting means less scoring for Alex Ovechkin. [WaPo]
• How the Bruins are antagonizing their way to victory. [THW]
• In which Braden Holtby gets in Jack Edwards' head. [RMNB]
• Speaking of Holtby, are the B's learning how to play him? [WaPo]
• Along those lines, can the Caps contain the B's dangerous third line? [KOL]
• Dustin Brown, you are no Matt Hendricks. F'realz. [Hockey Hourly]
• The Hershey Bears relaxed Harrisburg Senators-style. [SHoE]
• Separated at Birth: 2012 NHL Playoffs Edition. [SI]
• Want good game day karma? Donate to Caps Charities via JP's beard. Seriously, there's no donation too small. [Japers' Beard]