Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings from last night’s loss from us, Monumental video (Oates, Ovechkin, Holtby, Green, Beagle, Oleksy, photos), Vogs, Capitals Voice audio (Backstrom goal, Green goal), NHL.com, SI, Puck Daddy, WaPo (gamer, blog, column), CSNW (gamer, blog, blog, Joe B.), WashTimes (gamer, blog), DCEx, PHT, Frankovic, RMNB, Alex Ovetjkin, DSP (and again), Puckhead and RtR from the DC side of things, and for the view from the other side, ESPN NY, NYT, Ranger Report Blog, Blue Seat Blogs, NYR Blog, Scotty Hockey and our pals at Blueshirt Banter.
- Mike Green is en fuego. [RMNB]
- John Erskine missed a few shifts around the first intermission, but returned. [WashTimes]
- Too Many Men on the Caps… and the Rangers… but only the Caps, apparently. [RMNB, Mr. I]
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday’s pre-game goings-on up in the Big Apple:
- In general. [Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Oates, Ovechkin, Holtby, Green, Chimera, Carlson, Erskine)]
- The Caps were “loose” pregame. Too loose? [WaPo, WashTimes, NYT]
- John Tortorella said his Rangers were “close” through two games… [WaPo, CSNW, WashTimes]
- … but were they? [Dump n’ Chase, NBC4]
- Shooooooooooot! [WashTimes]
- On shot blocking: not too much, not too little… but just right. [WaPo]
- Rick Nash‘s sweet spot. Still sweet? [Blue Seat Blogs]
- Donna Martin graduates! Donna Martin graduates! Mike Green scores! Donna Martin Graduates! [RMNB]
- Alex Ovechkin wasn’t Player of the Year? Must be anti-Russian bias. What? Oh. Anyway, Pavel Datsyuk is happy Ovi’s back. [Puck Daddy]
- The Boss may be superstitious. [DC Sports Bog]
- RGIII = web traffic, so here’s this. [DC Sports Bog]
- Evgeny Kuznetsov says zzzzz… wake me when he’s here. [RMNB]
- Hero. [RMNB]
- Definitely not a bandwagon fan. [Caps Outsider]
- Zero donations to charity via my beard between Games 2 and 3. I’d like to say, conclusively, that that had nothing to do with last night’s loss, but I just can’t. Donate! [Beard-A-Thon]
- Finally, happy 33rd birthday to Lawrence Nycholat, and happy 57th birthday to Tony Cassolato.