Your savory breakfast links:
- Catch up on all the Clips you missed over another beautiful weekend. [Rink]
- Your Capitals Minute for today. [Capitals Voice]
- After trimming their roster to 24 players (more on that in a moment), the Caps made one final move to get to 23 (and shed some salary), sending Mathieu Perreault to Anaheim for a pick and a player. Bonne chance, Mathieu! [Rink, Dump ‘n Chase, WaPo, CSNW, Patriot-News, PHT, RMNB]
- MP85 will be missed. [Peerless, Caps Outsider]
- Questioning the move. [RMNB, DSP, RtR]
- Earlier in the day, the team had sent Dmitry Orlov, Michal Cajkovsky and Dane Byers to Hershey, and placed Joel Rechlicz on waivers (which Tyson Strachan, incidentally, cleared). [Dump ‘n Chase, WaPo, NBC4]
- So who’s left and what are the roster’s strengths and weaknesses? [Frankovic]
- A closer look at the Metro Division… [SI.com]
- … and an Olympic-style assessment of the 2013-14 Caps. [Puck Daddy]
- Speaking of the Olympics, just like that, Alex Ovechkin is back from the weekend of a lifetime, no worse for the wear. [CSNW, Puck Daddy, Alex Ovetjkin]
- And speaking of Ovi, he chatted up journos earlier in the week about life at 28 and other things. [CSNW, RMNB, FTW]
- Tomas Kundratek has more to give, and now would be a good time to start giving it. [THW]
- The Caps’ cupboard may be better-stocked than we’d thought. [HF]
- Some of those kids were in action up the road yesterday, where the Bears lost their preseason finale. [Patriot-News]
- Y’know how helium makes your voice all funny? Yeah, you know where this is going… [Peerless]
- Finally, since we’re all just rooting for laundry, might as well know how to care for it. [Puck Buddys]