Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s ridiculousness from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Oates, Ovechkin, Wilson, Laich, Carlson, Holtby), NHL.com, AP, SportsXchange, WaPo, CSNW, F Street Faithful, DSP, RMNB, and from the Columbus contingent, the Blue Jackets, Columbus Dispatch, The Union Blue and The Cannon.
- That guy in the #70 jersey might have looked familiar as he came in to relieve Philipp Grubauer in the second period – that was Braden Holtby, and he was very good. [CSNW, RMNB]
- Not so good was Tom Wilson, who took an unnecessary and undisciplined penalty in the first that negated a Caps’ power play and led to the Blue Jackets’ first goal. [WaPo]
- Usually Wilson is the 19-year-old dropping the gloves for the Caps… last night it was Connor Carrick. Wait, Connor Carrick?? [CSNW, HockeyFights.com]
- Adam Oates says his team’s lackluster performance is all mental. Great, can we have them all committed? [CSNW]
- News and notes from yesterday’s pregame practice:
- In general. [Monumental video (Oates)]
- It may not have gone the way he wanted it to, but Brooks Laich skated in his 600th career NHL game last night. Congrats, sir. [Monumental video, CSNW]
- Meanwhile the Caps were heading into last night’s game confident in how they’d been playing despite the three-game losing streak. Probably not so much after that fourth loss, though. [WaPo]
- Should the Capitals re-sign Mikhail Grabovski? (Yes.) [WaPo]
- Should the Capitals trade Mikhail Grabovski? (No.) [CSNW]
- The NHL continues to show a commitment to equality with their partnership with You Can Play – a partnership highlighted in TSN’s “ReOrientation” series (which you can, and should, check out here). [Sporting News]
- Finally, happy 61st birthday to Pete Laframboise.