Your savory breakfast links:
- The Caps returned to Kettler for the first of two days of practice before Friday’s date with Philly.
- In general. Monumental video (Capitals Report, Oates, Green, Brouwer)]
- For being a quiet post-roadie practice, things sure got busy quick… [Dump ‘n’ Change]
- …beginning with the news that The Captain is day-to-day with a non-concussion upper body injury… [WaPo (and again), CSNW, NHL.com, RMNB]
- …and continuing with the news that Dmitry Orlov and Michael Latta have been summonsed from Hershey … [Patriot-News, WaPo]
- … and John Erskine to LTIR. [PHT]
- Your Capitals Minute for today. [Capitals Voice]
- Braden Holtby: This ain’t no disco. [NBC4, CSNW, RMNB, EITM]
- Adam Oates: Say, we should prob’ly be tougher to play against. [CSNW]
- One month in, the metrics are starting to add up for the Caps. [Cover the Puck, FanPost, RtR]
- Point/Counterpoint:
- Ten great goals from October. [CtP (video analysis)]
- In which Cheerless presents his Beginner’s Guide to #Fancystats, Annotated. [Peerless]
- Brooks Laich dished about his TV-watching habits. Hello, Trailer Park Boys! [Caps Outsider]
- The Caps, their prospects, their affiliates and their fans are getting into the Halloween, er spirit. Heh. [Caps Outsider (and again), RMNB]
- “Semyon Varlamov” and “arrested on assault and kidnapping charges” are not phrases one wants to see together, but here we are. [Mile High Hockey]
- Finally, happy Halloween and happy 30th birthday to Steve Eminger, happy 41st to Mel Angelstad, and happy 58th to Claude Noel.