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Wednesday Caps Clips: Olympic Dreams

Your savory breakfast links:

  • With three healthy, NHL-capable goalies on the active roster, the Caps’ crowded crease is starting to become an issue for the team. [Rink, WaPo, PHT]
  • Your Capitals Moment for today. [Capitals Voice]
  • With just a month to go until the Sochi Olympics, the rosters are in and the countdown begins:
    • Congratulations to Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom, who were officially (albeit not surprisingly) named to their countries’ Olympic rosters. [Rink, Vogs, Caps, Caps Today (Ovechkin, Backstrom), WaPo (Ovechkin, Backstrom), CSNW (and more on Ovechkin, Backstrom), NBC4, RMNB (Ovechkin, Backstrom),
    • More on the host country’s team, as Ovechkin and friends try to win the gold medal in front of the hometown crowd. Wait, no Alexander Semin? Really? [Puck Daddy, Reuters, Sporting News]
    • While Backstrom will be donning the Tre Kronor next month, a stacked Swedish roster meant his fellow countryman Marcus Johansson would be staying home. Poor Mojo. [CSNW]
    • There won’t be any Caps on Team Canada this year, but Canada’s depth is such that they would maybe make the B squad… or the D squad. Or the E or G squad. [All Won Media]
    • Great look at the differences between playing on Olympic- and NHL-sized ice – key to note that North American teams have not fared well when international tournaments are on international ice. [BHS]
  • Ovechkin’s ongoing awesomeness is a storyline for the second half; it also makes him one of fourteen players to watch in the season’s final 40 games. Yeah, we might keep an eye on him. [NHL.com]
  • News and notes from yesterday out at Kettler:
  • Boy, there are a lot of former Caps and former Caps’ draftees kicking around in the NHL, aren’t there? [Peerless]
  • The Caps’ prospects get high marks for their performance at this year’s WJC… and feel free to ignore the team (and one name in particular) above them on this list. No, really, don’t look. [ESPN ($)]
  • Assessing Team USA’s forwards after the World Junior Championship, including Caps’ prospects Riley Barber and Thomas DiPauli. [USoH]
  • Connor Carrick‘s trek back from the World Juniors to Hershey was a bit of a tumultuous one, to say the least. [Patriot-News]
  • Finally, wishing a very happy birthday indeed to Ted Leonsis.

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