Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s shootout loss from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Oates, Brouwer, Backstrom, Ward, Grubauer), Capitals Voice calls (Backstrom, Ward), NHL.com, WaPo, AP, Peerless, Frankovic, F Street Faithful, DSP, and RMNB. For the Kitties, Litter Box Cats and On Frozen Pond.
- Erik Gudbranson‘s elbow jumped ugly with Eric Fehr‘s noggin in the second period. Fehr left the ice but returned to the game in the third. Gudbranson was assessed a match penalty and should probably expect a call from Toronto sometime soon… [WaPo, RMNB, SB Nation, CSNW]
- … even as Troy Brouwer stepped in to stick up for his fallen teammate. It may not have been #TheBank, exactly, but it sure was money. [HockeyFights, CSNW]
- Dmitry Orlov had himself a heck of a game and is pressing his case in the best possible way – through his play on the ice. [RMNB]
- Another guy who’s making himself heard: Philipp Grubauer. [WaPo]
- News and notes from pregame:
- In general. [Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Oates, Grubauer, Rinkside Update/Carlson]
- In which Coach Oates warns against complacency when facing the Panthers. (Update: Welp.) [WaPo]
- Oh hai there Grubi. Getting the net again, eh? [WaPo]
- Here is JP’s Caps/Cats Q & A with our SB Nation blogbrethren. [LBC]
- Note to Team USA – writing “John Carlson” on your Sochi roster should not be a tough decision… [Eye on Hockey]
- …and here are the reasons Karl Alzner should be hearing from Hockey Canada. [GM on a Couch]
- Hug a hockey player today. And every day. [Puck Daddy]
- Finally, happy 46th birthday to Bill Ranford and happy 51st to Peter Sundstrom.