Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s big win from us, Monumental video (Oates, Holtby, players), Vogs, Capitals Voice (first goal, second goal, dagger), NHL.com, WaPo (gamer), WashTimes (gamer, blog), CSNW (Joe B., gamer, blog), DCEx, PHT, Frankovic, Peerless, OFB, DSP, Alex Ovetjkin and RMNB.
- The game was scrap-tastic. There was the Matt Hendricks – Nicolas Blanchard hugfest … [HockeyFights]
- … and the end-of-game pleasantries exchanged by Troy Brouwer and Alexander Semin … [RMNB]
- … but Marcus Johansson taking on Jeff Skinner? Preach it, Brother Jojo. [RMNB]
- There was an actual surprise with the Spring Puck Surprise. [Caps Outsider]
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday’s pre-game goings-on at Kettler: [Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Green, Holtby, Beagle), WaPo]
- The loss that became full of win. [WaPo, WashTimes]
- A month to remember, or forget. Depending. [NHL.com]
- A few leftovers from the “Alex Ovechkin is teh awesome!!!!” bit bucket … [CSNW, NBC4, WashTimes (with rising tide metaphor advisory)]
- … but really, it’s Adam Oates Appreciation Day. [WaPo, Yahoo! Sports]
- Joel Ward and his big night as host for the Washington premiere of “42” [Dump ‘n’ Chase, DCEx, DC Sports Bog]
- The NHL and the NHLPA jointly announced that “You Can Play” is now the official policy of the League and its players. Huzzah. [Puck Buddys, Out Sports, LA Times]
- Fox Sports analyst Kenny Albert learned how to call hockey games in Baltimore with the Skipjacks, back in the day. [BJT]
- Finally, happy 58th birthday to Antero Lehtonen, happy 60th birthday to Mike Bloom, happy 63rd to Bob Girard… and happy 39th to Roman Hamrlik.