Your savory breakfast links:
- Your Capitals Minute for today. [Capitals Voice]
- The Week That Was, Volume 23. [Peerless, RMNB, In Lou We Trust]
- Scoreboard peepin’. [RMNB, @SkyKerstein]
- A few leftovers from Caps-Sharks and the California roadie:
- Five thoughts. [WaPo]
- Holtby strong. [CSNW]
- Coach ‘splains why he sat Alex Ovechkin in the shootout. [CSNW]
- Ovi got fed a pretty steady diet of Jumbo Joe, Joe Pavelski, and Brent Burns on Saturday, with a side of Wingels . [Left Wing Lock]
- Related: If you live and die by the shootout, it is better to live. [Puck Rant]
- Tom Wilson was digging the Cali lifestyle. [BSR]
- Dustin Penner arranged for extra security for the bus back to the airport. Awwww. [BSR]
- There ain’t no party like a West Coast and RMNB party. [BSR]
- Maintaining momentum is key. [WaPo]
- Bruce Garrioch speculates about George McPhee‘s future in DC and also looks at why Jaroslav Halak might remain with the Caps. [Ottawa Sun]
- Hershey entered the weekend five points behind Providence for eighth place in the Eastern Conference, and after one win and two losses, exit the weekend in the same spot – five points back of the final playoff spot. [Patriot-News]
- Here’s Andre Burakovsky, making a difference for the Erie Otters in their first-round playoff series. [RMNB]
- You can probably begin the Chandler Stephenson Watch, as his Regina Pats are having difficulty handling the Brandon Wheat Kings and are now down 2 games to none (having been outscored 14-7) in their best-of-seven series. [WHL]
- Every journey of a thousand blog posts begins with a single Tweet, or so we’re told. Here’s a few of the Caps’ First Tweets. [Puck Buddys]
- Finally, happy 59th birthday to Doug Jarvis.