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Friday Caps Clips: Man Down

Your savory breakfast links:

  • Be sure to check out our latest round of mailbag questions, where we tackle potential trade partners and the search for a left-handed defenseman. [Rink]
  • News and notes from Day 1 of training camp out at Kettler:
  • Fantastic story of Adam Oates flying halfway around the world for a 24-hour visit with Alex Ovechkin last month. Simply incredible on so many levels. [WaPo]
  • Speaking of the coach and the captain, Oates got Ovechkin to take his game to another level last season… and believes he’s capable of even more. [CSNW]
  • In the real world, familiarity is said to breed contempt; for the Caps, it’s anything but, as they look forward to a bit of stability for once. [WaPo]
  • Using some stats – and the good ol’ A-B-Cs – to try and sort out the Caps’ lines. [RMNB]
  • Marcus Johansson is freshly re-signed, and is ready to turn his bridge contract into something bigger. [NHL.com]
  • We help some ‘Hawks fans get familiar with the 2013-14 Caps – good timing, since the two teams meet about eleventy billion times between now and October 1. Or three. Whatever. [Second City Hockey]
  • The countdown to opening night continues… [Peerless]
  • Previewing the 2013-14 season for the Caps from a fantasy hockey perspective. [THN]
  • You know what everyone wants to talk about before a single preseason game is even played? Which players will win awards next summer. Place your bets. #OleksyforNorris [Puck Daddy]
  • Watch a sharp-dressed Mike Green accept his award at Sneaker Ball X from earlier this week (and some of his nattily-attired teammates turn out to support him). [Monumental video, What’s Up Ya Sieve?]
  • A Sabres fan adds Braden Holtby to his wish list, and proves that even fans of the Sabres can exhibit signs of good taste. (We kid, we kid.) [Sabrenoise]
  • Get a few more glimpses of the magnificent drooling eagle on Braden Holtby’s new mask. [Caps OT]
  • Usually a guy making Alex Ovechkin cheddar wouldn’t need to take a summer job… but alas, this one was for love, not money. [DC Sports Bog]
  • If you were curious about what a hockey player’s favorite superhero says about him – and why wouldn’t you be? – now you can find out. (For what it’s worth, Tom Wilson‘s? Superman.) [Extra Mustard (SI.com)]
  • The paper tickets may have gone by the wayside, but some lucky season ticketholders still get a pretty snazzy box full of… well, season ticketholder stuff. [DC Sports Bog]
  • Finally, happy 37th birthday to Jose Theodore.
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