Your savory breakfast links:

• Recaps and other assorted musings on yesterday's 8-0 scrimmage win from Caps365 video (pregame, Rinkside Update, Oates, Holtby, Crabb), Dump 'n Chase, WaPo, WashTimes, DSP, Puckhead]
  • Caps fans (and likely players, coaches and anyone else with any ties to the team) got a scare early on when Alex Ovechkin and Marcus Johansson collided, sending a bloodied captain to the locker room. But both returned and seemed none the worse for wear. [CSNW (video of the collision), Caps365 video (Ovechkin, Johansson), WaPo, WashTimes, NBC4]
  • Despite the whitewashing, what a day for the Reading Royals, eh? [Capitals Voice, Caps365 video (Courville, O'Connor), SB Nation, Capitals Outsider]
• Prior to the scrimmage, Cam Schilling - excuse me, Cameron Schilling - was returned to Hershey. [Caps, WaPo, WashTimes]
• Adam Oates could be the perfect coach for Ovechkin... [WashTimes (and for related Brett Hull/Ovechkin stuff, recall our post from a couple of months back)]
• ... even if Ovi might be a bit "lost" at the moment... [CSNW]
• ... because switching from port side to starboard really shouldn't be a big deal. [Backhand Shelf, who ranks Ovi in their top-two fantasy left wings (for more BS fantasy rankings, click here)]
• Release the hounds! Err, defensemen! [WaPo, with an in-depth look at the blueline at DSP]
• One does not simply replace Brooks Laich in the lineup. [WaPo]
• The Caps are taking a low-risk/medium-reward gamble on Wojtek Wolski. [CSNW]
• Ditto Eric Fehr. [NBC4 (video)]
• Speaking of Fehr... Guess who! Answer. Amazing. [@EricFehr via Caps OT]
• Radio hits from yesterday:
  • GMGM on Elliot in the Morning... [EITM (audio)]
  • ... and later on The Sports Fix... [ESPN980 (audio)]
  • ... Jason Chimera on the same show... [ESPN980 (audio)]
  • ... Joey Crabb was on SiriusXM... [Facebook (audio)]
  • ... Matt Hendricks was on WTOP... [WTOP (audio)]
  • ... and Mike Ribeiro on LaVar and Dukes. [106.7 the Fan (audio)]
• So many questions up front, so few answers... for now... [Peerless]
• ... but here are some predictions nonetheless. [Sick Unbelievable, ESPN ($; projected goal-scorers and point leaders]
• Olie Kolzig on being immortalized on a current Caps keeper's mask. [RMNB]
• It's never too early to start thinking about trade bait, is it? [gofivehole]
• Five Caps who need to step up in 2013. [Fanspeak]
• Previewing the East... [DGB]
• ... and the Southeast. [SB Nation]
• The AHL's Outdoor Classic Alumni Game rosters were announced yesterday, and there are some familiar names for Caps fans on the Hershey side. [Bears, with updates from current-Bears practice at the Patriot-News, where the Chocolate and White prepares for life AH (After Holtby)]
  
• Finally, happy 39th birthday to Todd Rohloff, happy 47th to Stephen Leach, and happy 53rd to Scot Kleinendorst.