Your savory breakfast links:
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday out at Kettler:
- In general. [Monumental video (Rinkside Update, Oates, Ovechkin, Holtby, Backstrom, Green, Brouwer, Ribeiro, Chimera, Erskine, Oleksy), WashTimes, CSNW, DSP]
- Joel Ward is targeting a Game 1 return… [WaPo, WashTimes, DCEx, NBC4]
- … while the team won’t set a target on Brooks Laich‘s return. [WaPo, WashTimes, DCEx]
- The long layoff meets with mixed reviews. [WaPo (and again, with Taylor Swift jokes), WashTimes]
- Fire in the hole! [AP]
- Someone tell the captain they’re playing New York, not Ottawa. [Winnipeg Sun, RMNB]
- … and from the New York side of the series. [WaPo, ESPN, NYDN, Blueshirts United (video), Ranger Rants (and again)]
- Alex Ovechkin is your First Star for the month of April… [Capitals]
- … your Most Valuable Player for the season in the eyes of a growing number of onlookers, small and Great… [BGlobe, Sporting News, WashTimes, RMNB]
- … all because he’s buyin’ what Adam Oates is sellin’. [John Feinstein Show]
- He’s also a Play of the Year nominee… [TSN (video)]
- … and, annually, a top playoff performer. [TSN (video)]
- Caps-Rangers previews, scouting reports, etc. galore…:
- Must-see TV! [Puck Daddy]
- “Ovechkin decided this year he was going to finally play.” Whatever. [ESPN ($)]
- Odds of an upset? 51.9%. Never tell me the odds. [ESPN ($)]
- OK, fine, tell me some of the odds. [Puck Daddy]
- And more. [NBC4, Capitals Outsider, RtR (and again)]
- … and a look back at the last three series between the two teams. [WaPo]
- Predictions:
- Caps in seven. [USAToday, Puckhead]
- Rangers in seven. [TSN, Hockey Prospectus]
- Rangers in six. [RLS]
- Ten 2013 games that helped the team get to where they got… [Dump ‘n Chase, with another ten over at CSNW]
- … and three now-coaches who helped the team get to where they got in 1998. [WaPo]
- GMGM on goalies, free agency and more. [CSNW]
- Steve “Binky” “Norris” Oleksy Week continues. [ECHL]
- We don’t need to tell you why you should root for the Caps… but we’re happy to anyway! [SB Nation]
- Troy Brouwer did a radio hit on WTOP yesterday. [WTOP (audio)]
- The Caps did good numbers on the teevee this year. [DC Sports Bog]
- Besides Comcast Sportsnet, here are some other regular-season winners (and losers). [Mr. Irrelevant]
- Along those lines, reflections on preseason predix. [FanPost]
- What it’s like to win the shirt of the captain’s back. [RMNB]
- Admin note: If it’s just playoff-related content you want, skip the front page and head straight to our Playoffs hub, which contains Caps-Rangers posts from around the SB Nation network. Neat-o.
- Finally, it’s that time of the year again: Beardathon. I won’t tell you to donate to my beard… but I will tell you that the more you donate, the more likely the Caps are to win. That’s just a fact. [Beardathon]