Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s shootout win from
us, Vogs, Monumental video (Oates, Oleksy, Latta, Carlson, Neuvirth, Dineen, Panthers Room), Capitals Voice calls (Backstrom, Carlson), NHL.com, CSNW, WaPo, Peerless, Frankovic, DSP, Cover the Puck and RMNB, and from the Kitties’ side of things, Litter Box Cats and the Miami Herald.- Novechkin, no problem. Or at least not much of one. [CSNW, The Sports Column]
- Michael Latta collected his first NHL point with a nifty assist on John Carlson‘s 100th. [Caps OT]
- Nightmare Fuel: Krys Barch plays Tooth Fairy. [Puck Daddy, Eye on Hockey]
- Mikhail Grabovski scored a one-of-a-kind one-handed shootout goal… [RMNB]
- …that was emulated moments later by Aleksander Barkov, copy Cat. [Panther Parkway (video)]
- Surprise! [Caps Outsider]
- News and notes from yesterday’s optional morning skate:
- In general. [Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Rinkside Update (Backstrom), Oates, Oleksy, Brouwer), WaPo, CSNW]
- Though the Captain hit the Kettler ice with his ‘mates, he was ruled out for the Panthers game. [Caps OT (video), WaPo, NHL.com]
- Some of the leftovers and fallout from Friday’s Fight Night in Philly:
- After hours of discussion and citing a faulty rulebook, the Lig has opted against suspending Ray Emery. [TheScore]
- Faulty rulebook? Faulty rulebook. [Broad Street Hockey]
- Why this event should trouble the National Hockey League… [Eye on Hockey, Habs Eyes on the Prize, Edmonton Journal, Pension Plan Puppets, TribLive]
- … it certainly troubles Ken Dryden. [Globe & Mail]
- As ye sow, so shall ye reap. [NY Post (Larry Brooks advisory)]
- We’ll just go ahead and presume that none of the League’s sponsors read this publication. [Business Insider]
- Pictures at an exhibition. [RMNB, and again, Deadspin (video), The Pensblog]
- Say, how ’bout that third line, eh? [NHL.com]
- The calendar having turned to November, it’s time for the October report card. [WashTimes]
- Braden Holtby, wrestling with the goalie demons. [mediachameleon]
- From the “Where Are They Now” Files, former Caps d-man Brian Pothier is an assistant coach at UMass-Dartmouth. [South Coast Today]
- The Vancouver Canucks retired the Russian Rocket’s #10 sweater last night… [Nucks TV (video)]
- … and the Great Eight sent along his warm wishes. [Nucks TV (video)]
- Finally, happy 44th birthday to Jim McKenzie.