Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings from last night’s win from us (with quotes, and look for Clyde’s pics later), Vogs, Monumental video (Oates, Caps players, Cooper, Bolts players), Capitals Voice, NHL.com, AP, SportsXchange, WaPo, WashTimes (and again), DCEx, CSNW (gamer, Joe B), Frankovic, Peerless, RMNB, DSP, RtR and Caps by Puck (pics!), and for the view from Tampa, our SB Nation pals over at Raw Charge.
- In AO we trust. [CSNW, PHT]
- Related: What a week. [Alex Ovetjkin, Puck Drunk Love, THW, CSNW]
- Tomfoolery! [Eye on Hockey, TheScore]
- A week to remember, for all the right reasons, for Jack Hillen. Congrats on the new K, the two assists, and, oh yeah, the arrival of your new bundle of joy. Welcome Knox Patrick Hillen! [WashTimes, Caps Outsider]
- Injury updates:
- Martin Erat does not have a concussion. So there’s that. [PHT]
- Brooks Laich doesn’t exactly know what is wrong with whatever it is that is wrong. So he’s off to see the specialist. Mike Green‘s groin specialist, if you must know. [PHT]
- Joel Ward will travel with the team to Montreal, sez coach Oates. [@SWhyno]
- Matt Hendricks and Jay Beagle must be filming a buddy comedy or something. Because those shakes are ridiculous. [CSNW (video)]
- The Bears fell to the Baby Pens. [Patriot-News]
- Finally, it’s just Dennis Maruk chilling at the Turtle postgame. NBD. [@WaltonCaps]