Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings from last night’s Game 5 victory from us, Monumental video (Oates, Holtby, Ovechkin, Ribeiro, Perreault, Ward, Wilson, Tortorella, Rangers players), Vogs, Capitals Voice (Ward goal, Ribeiro goal), NHL.com, AP, WaPo (gamer, blog, blog, pics), WashTimes (gamer), DCEx, CSNW (gamer, highlights), PHT, SI, canoe.ca, Peerless, Frankovic, RMNB (gifs, gifs, gifs, gifs), Puckhead, DSP, RtR, HockeyShopped (pics!), and Inside Hockey.
- Mike Ribeiro, your spotlight is ready. [WashTimes, CSNW, AP (Photo)]
- That. Goal. [Rink, Blue Seat Blogs]
- A go-go dance party on F Street… [Caps B-Ball]
- … and Capitude down on Half Street. [@_JakeRussell, DC Sports Bog]
- Speaking of Capitude, Nats pitcher Ross Detwiler has advice for the Caps’ power play. [CSNW]
- Welcome to the show, Tom Wilson. [Free-Lance Star]
- Playoff hockey is teh awesome, ain’t it? After you peel your fingers off your face, that is. [WashTimes]
- Shaking off the ghosts of playoffs past. [WaPo]
- You may now safely make your Mothers’ Day reservations as the Game Six start time has been fixed at 4:30pm. [Capitals]
- From the Rangers‘ end of the ice:
- Recaps: Blueshirt Banter, Scotty Hockey, Ranger Rants (and again), Rangers Report, NYT (gamer, pics), NYPost (gamer, blog), NYDN]
- Banged-up and bruised Blueshirts. [NYDN]
- Gnash. [NYP, ESPN NY, CBC]
- Today’s NYC newspaper covers. [SNYRangers]
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday’s pre-game goings-on out at Kettler:
- In general. [Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Coaches’ Corner)]
- Grab yourself a #43 sweater, Tommy m’boy, and shake hands with Mr. Beagle and Mr. Hendricks… [WaPo, WashTimes, SB Nation, CSNW]
- … because Martin Erat is sitting this game out. [SB Nation]
- As is Marc Staal. [SB Nation]
- Congrats are in order for Alex Ovechkin, who is joined by Sidney Crosby and John Tavares as finalists for the 2012-2013 Hart Trophy … [Rink, NHL.com]
- …though he didn’t make Pierre LeBrun’s ballot, and here’s why. [ESPN]
- Hockey hugs! [Puck Daddy]
- The Lig, its players, and the IIHF/IOC seem to be inching closer to an agreement on Sochi participation next year. [NYDN]
- You donated, they won. You donate more… see where we’re coming from? [Beard-A-Thon]
- Finally, happy 44th birthday to Todd Nelson, the Caps’ all-time leader in goals-per-game by a blueliner (tied). And yes, we used that line last year, too.