Your savory breakfast links:
- The gold-medal game did not begin (or end) for Sweden the way they had anticipated or dreamed, but their solid play through the Olympic tournament earned them a chance to compete with Canada in the final game and they bring home well deserved silver medals. Congratulations, Tre Kronor. [RMNB]
- Sweden will never know for sure if they might have performed just a bit better if they hadn’t been deprived of the services of their first-line centerman. Nicklas Backstrom was hauled in front of the IOC’s anti-doping committee about two hours before puck drop and summarily suspended for a positive test for pseudoephedrine. From his allergy meds. [Full roundup here]
- And yes, congratulations Team Canada. [CTV]
- The Olympics are nice and all but we’ve 23 more games to play. [Ted’s Take]
- Breaking news: The Caps have yet to play their best hockey… [PHT, WashTimes]
- … and team management has some decisions to make. [4th Period]
- Alex Ovechkin has a Instagram and he knows how to use it. [Caps Outsider]
- The Hershey Bears paid a visit to the Verizon Center for the AHL Showcase game against the Syracuse Crunch. Syracuse left with a 5-2 victory and two points in the bank. [Patriot-News, SHoE]
- Old friends Steve Oleksy and Philipp Grubauer were happy to be back, if only for one game. [Caps Outsider, RMNB]
- Appreciating Mike Grier, who was first. [ThyBlackMan.com]
- Finally, happy 56th birthday to Tim Coulis and happy 28th birthday to Wojtek Wolski.