Your savory breakfast links:
- Preview of tonight’s preseason battle with Buffalo from Vogs (list of Caps players who might play via @adamvingan), and be sure to check out our SB Nation partners over at Die By The Blade for more from the other side of tonight’s match-up.
- All the news that’s Fehr to print from yesterday. [Rink, WaPo, Express]
- News and notes from yesterday out at Kettler:
- In general (including injury updates on Mike Green, Dmitry Orlov, Tom Wilson and Jay Beagle). [Monumental video (Trotz), WaPo, CSNW]
- Andre Burakovsky is “playing like an NHL player,” but hasn’t made the team… yet. [WaPo, CSNW]
- Brooks Laich on his (latest) injury scare and other matters. [Monumental (video)]
- The Caps are becoming shot-blocking fools. [CSNW]
- Connor Carrick knows he’s on the chopping block, but he’ll be back. [CSNW]
- Meanwhile, Chris Brown is trying to wedge himself into the lineup (and doing a good job of it). [CSNW (video)]
- More previews of and predictions for the team’s 2014-15 season. [Grantland, SportsNetwork]
- Alex Ovechkin and a guy who appears to be a baseball player for what appears to be a semi-local baseball team grace the regional cover of this week’s issue of what appears to be a sports-focused periodical (which you can see at the bottom of this post). [DC Sports Bog, RMNB]
- Speaking of the captain, he’s a Hart Trophy candidate because duh. [THN]
- Also, he’s going to score a bunch of points. [Globe and Mail]
- Evgeny Kuznetsov – boom… [ESPN]
- … or bust? [The Loser Point]
- Olie Kolzig did a radio hit with Hockey This Morning yesterday. [Sirius XM (audio)]
- Former Cap Mike Ridley‘s son Matt has signed with the South Carolina Stingrays, which is probably only marginally more pride-enducing than when the elder Rids posed for this pic. [RMNB]
- News and notes from up the road at Bears camp. [Patriot-News and again and again]
- Finally, happy 37th birthday to Yogi Svejkovsky.
This week’s cover (1/3) @SimplyAJ10 & @Ovi8: IT’S ON! MLB Playoff & NHL Season Previews! http://t.co/5ZneWke0oG pic.twitter.com/VOgUPmbb5P
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) September 30, 2014