Your savory breakfast links:
- Previews of tonight’s season opener in the Windy City from Vogs, NHL.com, PHT and Peerless, and be sure to check back in with our SB Nation pals over at Second City Hockey for the other side of tonight’s game.
- Your Capitals Minute for today. [Capitals Voice]
- Spend some time with the visually stunning and incredibly informative SB Nation 2013-14 NHL Season Preview. [SB Nation, and here are our season preview posts if you’re still hungry]
- News and notes from yesterday:
- In general. [Monumental video (Rinkside Update, Oates, Ovechkin, Green, Alzner, Fehr)]
- Brooks Laich says he’s good to go for tonight. [CSNW, NBC4]
- So is the captain, after his quick trip to Greece. [NPR (audio), CSNW, RMNB]
- To no one’s surprise, Joel Rechlicz cleared waivers and will head to Hershey. [Patriot-News, Stucc’s]
- On the bench boss. [WaPo]
- The Caps look good… on paper…. [WashTimes, WaPo]
- … but have plenty of room for improvement. [CBS]
- Mikhail Grabovski brings a lot to the table… including on-ice emotion. [WashTimes]
- On three kids – Tom Wilson, Connor Carrick and Michael Latta – that made the opening night roster. [WaPo, WashTimes, RMNB]
- It’s not Ali standing over Liston, but this (at right) is still a pretty great fight photo. [RMNB]
- More previews and predictions than you can (or want to) read. [NHL.com, ESPN (with power rankings), WaPo, Monumental, BuzzFeed (!), SI.com, National Post, Eye on Hockey, Hockey Prospectus, Mirtle, Puck Daddy (awards), SB Nation (odds), Copper & Blue, The Fourth Period, RMNB, DSP (roundtable, Part 2)]
- New rule alert: hybrid icing is officially a thing. [Puck Daddy, WaPo]
- Some Metro Division musings. [RLS]
- Awww… Sugarvechkin would’ve been awesome (promoting these, perhaps). [Alex Ovetjkin]
- The hirsute Karl Alzner talks ‘stache. [DC Sports Bog]
- Go for the unusual preseason Caps stat, stay for the pic of Steve Oleksy pummeling Mike Fisher. [HockeyFights]
- A look back at the Bears’ pre-season and ahead to the real deal. [Stucc’s]
- As for the amateurs, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better overview of the 2013-14 NCAA season than this one (which includes notes on several Caps prospects’ teams, including Riley Barber ‘s Miami RedHawks). [USoH]
- I was going to make a sodium and hydrogen joke here, but… NaH. [Peerless]
- Finally, happy 37th birthday to Yogi Svejkovsky.
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