Your savory breakfast links:
- Well, that was terrible. Finland hung five unanswered goals on the American squad to take bronze. [NBC-O, IIHF, NHL.com, RMNB (and gifs), Puck Daddy, THN, Sporting News (and pics)]
- In which Ken Campbell lays it on pretty thick. [THN]
- Yep, this team was bad… [NJ.com]
- … unless it wasn’t… [The Detroit News]
- …and either it wasn’t a complete bust or there’s a nice pic of a numb John Carlson at the link. [NBC-O]
- Speaking of whom, the young defenseman had a pretty good Olympic debut even with the disappointing finish. [CSNW]
- “They look like the Russians…” is most likely not high praise, this time ’round. [Puck Daddy]
- The fingers, they point. This one’s on you, Dan Bylsma. [Puck Daddy]
- Twelve teams entered the Olympic arena. Two still stand. The puck drops at 7am Eastern for CAN-SWE, and all the marbles. [NBC-O, NHL.com]
- Sweden and Canada, by the numbers. [TheScore, CBC]
- Oh hai there Tre Kronor first line centerman
Henrik SedinHenrik ZetterbergNicklas Bäckström. [NHL.com]
- Keys to victory. [NHL.com]
- Five challenges for Canada. [PHT]
- Five challenges for Sweden. [CBC]
- The non-Olympian Caps are commanded in their true patriot love to stand on guard for O Canada. [Caps OT]
- Good news! GM George McPhee likes his blueline. [CSNW]
- The Caps aren’t counting on Evgeny Kuznetsov to make the jump to the NHL this season… [NBC4]
- … possibly because he gave an interview to his Traktor website in which he basically states that he isn’t. More or less. [Traktor TV, RMNB]
- Nine players to watch on trade deadline day. [THN]
- Down a level, the Hershey Bears’ home-win streak ended with a 5-0 (ed. Really? Ugh.) loss to the Syracuse Crunch. [Patriot-News, THW]
- Perhaps they were just looking ahead to their date with the Norfolk Admirals tonight at the Verizon Center. [Patriot-News]
- Michael Latta is trying to work his way back to the Show. [THW]
- Congrats are in order for former Cap and Bear Keith Aucoin, who became only the fifth man to tally 600 assists in the A. [@AHLPR]
- Little Zach Ward had the best day ever at the Caps’ Extreme Recess event. [Caps Family]
- Finally, happy 59th birthday to Peter Scamurra and happy 48th to John Druuuuuuce.
