Your savory breakfast links:
- Previews of tonight’s Southeast Division reunion with the Alexander Semin-less Hurricanes from Vogs, NHL.com and Peerless, and be sure to check out our SB Nation partners over at Canes Country for the other side of tonight’s matchup.
- More news and notes from yesterday out at Kettler:
- In general. [Monumental video (Oates, clean-shaven Ovechkin, sorta-shaven Alzner, Beagle, Rinkside Update (Volpatti), CSNW]
- Brooks Laich‘s man-area is once again a center of attention, as is Michal Neuvirth‘s lower body. [WaPo, CSNW, NBC4]
- Jack Hillen spoke with the media about his long road of recovery and hopes to play again this season. [Monumental video, CSNW, NBC4]
- Sorry, Team Canada, no Tom Wilson for you. (And sorry, Tom Wilson, no Team Canada for you.) [WaPo, with more at EdJo and Brampton Guardian]
- Your Capitals Minute for today. [Capitals Voice]
- A look back at an up-and-down week of Ups and Downs. [Rink]
- Speaking of Ye Olde Roller Coaster, the Caps have been consistently inconsistent so far, and are looking to settle things down a bit. [Express]
- Alex Ovechkin may be the League’s Most Valuable Player… but is he the Caps’? [SB Nation]
- Adam Oates is getting some great experience dealing with malcontents, so there’s that. [CSNW]
- On that note, thoughts on L’Affaire Erat. [Rink]
- Buy or sell Mikhail Grabovski hitting the 60-point plateau this season? [THN]
- The Ovitals and Sidguins being good is apparently something the League would enjoy (so a little help over here, yeah?). [THN]
- This pic of Ovi from Russian Maxim is like Daft Punk meets the Tin Man meets the volleyball scene from Top Gun… or something. [Maxim.ru (possibly NSFW if you scroll down too far…)]
- Oh, good, the Bears hate possessing the puck, too. [THW]
- The teddy bears, they were tossed. Oh, the humanity. [Caps Outsider, Patriot-News, SHoE]
- Riley Barber and Andre Burakovsky are good at playing hockey in their respective leagues. [RMNB, RMNB]
- Hey, stay away from our Olie, Habs. [La Presse]
- Of grinders and Grindr. Great read. [Puck Buddys]
- Finally,happy 47th birthday to Ken Lovsin, one of a dozen one-regular-season-game Cap skaters.