Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings from last night’s big win (against a good team, no less, so this one counts!) from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Oates, Ovechkin, players), NHL.com, AP, WaPo (gamer, blog), Frankovic, Peerless, RMNB (and again), DSP and gofivehole, and from the Habs side of things, our friends at EOTP.
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday’s pre-game goings-on up in Montreal: Adam Oates on why he went back to Michal Neuvirth in net, the team’s top-nine forwards are dropping like flies and more. [Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Oates, Brouwer, Carlson, Hendricks, Perreault), Dump n’ Chase, WaPo (and again and again)]
- Happy days are here again… [ESPN]
- … thanks to Hart candidate (yes, you read that right) Alex Ovechkin and his coach… [SI, Puck Daddy, CSNW, RtR, WaPo (video)]
- … and Nicklas Backstrom… [CP]
- … and a bit of Marcus Johansson. [NHL.com]
- But are Ovi’s goals coming against the right teams? Seriously, get out of here with that stuff. [SI]
- Seventeen years after Pat Peake‘s brutal injury, the NHL still hasn’t moved to a safer rule on icing. [WashTimes]
- Will Wax Ovi be jealous of Digital Statue Ovi? [DC Sports Bog, WBJ, Alex Ovetjkin]
- Welcome to Hershey, Michael Latta. [Patriot-News, with more Bears news here]
- Finally, happy 43rd birthday to Enrico Ciccone.