Your savory breakfast links:
- Catch up on all of the Clips you might have missed over the weekend right here.
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s statement victory from us (with the night in quotes), Vogs, Monumental video (Oates, Backstrom, Holtby, Carlson, Hitchcock, Blues room), NHL.com, WaPo (gamer, blog), CSNW (gamer, blog) Peerless, Frankovic, DSP and RMNB, and from the Blues side, St. Louis Today & St. Louis Game Time.
- The 8-bit Caps had plenty of byte. [Rink]
- First there was The Captain‘s goal… [Capitals Voice (audio)]
- … then there was Alex Ovechkin‘s other goal… [Rink, Capitals Voice (audio), NHL Arena Cam, RMNB; per Elias: “It was Ovechkin’s fourth two-goal game this season and the 80th multiple-goal game of his NHL career. In the last 20 years the only other NHL player to reach 80 multi-goal games as quickly as Ovechkin (620 games) was his fellow Russian, Pavel Bure, who did so in March 2001 in his 586th career game.”]
- … and Mikhail Grabovski burying the rebound… [Capitals Voice (audio)]
- … before Tom Wilson took immediate exception to Ryan Reaves‘ late hit on Nicklas Backstrom… [hockeyfights]
- … all leading up to John Carlson’s power play dagger. [Capitals Voice (audio), RMNB]
- Save by save by Braden Holtby. [RMNB]
- Your Capitals Minute for today. [Capitals Voice]
- News and notes from pregame:
- In general. [Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Oates,Rinkside Update (Strachan)), WaPo]
- D-man dominoes: Mike Green is off to IR (plus in-game childcare duty), and Dmitry Orlov has been Alzner’d back up from Hershey. [Patriot-News, @WashCaps]
- Uncertain at being able to stop the Blues’ top scorer Alexander Steen, the Caps merely vow to contain him. [WaPo]
- The Week That Was, Volume 7 [Peerless, RMNB]
- The Tao of Adam Oates: On the one hand, and on the other hand. [CSNW]
- From the Japers’ Wayback Machine, one year ago today we learned that Brooks Laich was possibly injured playing for his Swiss team and was headed Stateside for treatment. But at least it wasn’t the face. [Rink]
- Finally, fans were able to sign a Get Well Soon card for Jack Hillen. [Caps Outsider]