Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps of last night’s win over Carolina from us (QuickCap, Recap), Vogs, Monumental video (Trotz, Fehr, Beagle, Chimera, highlights), NHL.com, AP, WaPo (gamer, blog), CSNW, Peerless, Frankovic, BrooksLaichyear, RMNB and Canes Country.
- Honest Jay Beagle. [Caps OT]
- If there’s a chance for a player to hit a milestone, snap a goalless streak or score against his former team, he’ll do it against the Caps. Enter Alexander Semin… who did all three. [The Score]
- News and notes from yesterday’s pregame skate:
- In general. [Dump ‘n Chase, Monumental video (Trotz, Rinkside Update/Beagle)]
- Over the last few games, the Caps’ once stalwart penalty kill has been faltering – and now the Caps are looking for answers. [CSNW]
- Also needing answers? Their tendency toward slow starts, for which the solution needs to come from within the room. [WaPo (and again)]
- Lights, camera, action! It’s time for the Caps to open their doors to the Epix cameras, as filming is set to begin on “Road to the Winter Classic”. [CSNW]
- A tough – and crucially important – December filled with Division rivals lies ahead for the Caps. [WaPo, Stars and Sticks]
- Mike Green is pretty good. Y’know, for a bottom-pairing defenseman… [RMNB]
- …but hey let’s play another round of “what can we get for him?” [TFP]
- Saturday night was Alex Ovechkin‘s 702nd career NHL game, which equals the number of games played by Pavel Bure. So… which Russian superstar gets the nod? [THN]
- Investigating some of the reasons why the NHL has had the mumps running through its ranks over the past few weeks. [WaPo]
- Who you should and should not be rooting for to land Connor McDavid. I think we all can get behind #30. [Grantland (DBG)]
- Good (short-term) news for Dish Network subscribers, as the satellite provider has reached an extension with Comcast SportsNet. [RMNB]
- Finally, happy 28th birthday to Julien Brouillette.