Your savory breakfast links:
- Catch up on the Clips you missed over the weekend right here.
- Recaps and other assorted musings from last night’s loss from us, Monumental video (Oates, players), NHL.com, WaPo (gamer, blog), WashTimes (gamer, blog), CSNW (gamer, blog, Joe B.), PHT, Peerless, Frankovic, RMNB, and with the view from Philly, our SB Nation pals over at Broad Street Hockey.
- A perfectly legal hit by Steven Oleksy on Flyers captain Claude Giroux led to a perfectly extralegal retaliatory fight from … Jakub Voracek. [RMNB, Hockeyfights, CSNW]
- If it’s a game in Philly, it must be time for a Philipp Grubauer callup. Hope you’re feeling better real soon, Neuvy. [WaPo, PHT]
- In which Adam Oates has advice for Team Russia. [Alex Ovetjkin]
- As the goalies keep getting larger, their pads are scheduled to get smaller. [WashTimes]
- Today in Mike Ribeiro (and keep an eye on this space later this afternoon). [Caps Outsider]
- Six prospects entered, none emerged. Riley Barber and the Miami University RedHawks lost 4-1 to St. Cloud State in the NCAA Hockey quarterfinals, leaving the Caps with no prospects contending in the 2013 Frozen Four … [Miami University]
- … though undoubtedly SCSU alum Matt Hendricks is walking just a little taller today. [Capitals Voice]
- Congrats are in order for the Reading Royals (and their newly-extended coach Larry Courville), who completed their regular season atop the Eastern Conference and begin post-season play this coming Friday. Well done. [Caps Outsider]
- The Royals’ success this season is due in large part to a very beneficial affiliation with Hershey and Washington, and it looks as if the teams will continue to work together. [Reading Eagle]
- Finally, happy 32nd birthday to Nolan Yonkman and Scott Stevens is 49 years young today. No foolin’.