Your savory breakfast links:
- All the training camp goodies you could possibly want, and a few more after that:
- Let’s get it started! [Dump ‘n Chase]
- Get yourself ready for camp and learn about the battles that will be fought in the coming weeks with our Training Camp Primer. [Rink]
- Hear from some of the players as they get back to work. [Monumental video (Ovechkin, Backstrom, Alzner, Carlson, Brouwer, Laich, Fehr, Holtby, Niskanen, Orpik)]
- After some time on the couch, Tom Wilson is on the mend from the broken ankle he sustained over the summer and talks to Mike Vogel about the healing process. [Dump ‘n Chase]
- Where there is training camp, there are storylines… and where there are storylines, there are articles about those storylines. [Pressbox DC, ESPN]
- As Barry Trotz gets ready to open his first training camp in DC, he’s got plans for the captain and the team as a whole… and the success is in the details. [WaPo, AP]
- Meanwhile, new assistant coach Todd Reirden could have a significant impact on Mike Green. [BrooksLaichyear]
- Trotz and Reirden are just two of the many new faces at Caps’ camp this year, on and off the ice. [Patriot-News]
- Five questions as the Caps open camp… [CSNW]
- …and five things to watch at camp from a Bears’ perspective. [Patriot-News]
- Take a gander at how the Caps’ blueliners stacked up against the rest of the League in terms of their neutral-zone play. [Rink]
- Previews! Get yer season previews!
- Of Brooks Laich and Evgeny Kuznetsov. [Peerless (Laich, Kuznetsov)]
- Of the team. [WaPo (Forwards, Defensemen, Goalies), CSNW (Joe Beninati – video), THN]
- Of the Metropolitan Division. [Anaheim Calling]
- New Caps’ blueliner Brooks Orpik talks about his decision to join the Caps. [CSNW]
- Ben Raby breaks down the top ten Caps games to watch this season in the Morning Drive. [Capitals Voice]
- Ranking every team in every league across a series of metrics as ESPN’s annual Ultimate Team Rankings are out. [ESPN]
- Hey, NHL (and fans of the NHL) – it’s a new year, which means it’s time to make a few resolutions. [Grantland]
- The Caps have installed a new display at Verizon Center sure to make Sidney Crosby twitch in agony. The hats… the hats!! [Caps, WaPo]
- Not able to get out to Verizon Center for any of the Caps’ preseason games? No worries, because the NHL Network will be airing a handful of them. [NHL.com]
- Analyzing NHL.com’s mock fantasy draft, or “why drafting Alex Ovechkin is somehow a risk in a game that rewards you for drafting point-producing players”. [NHL.com]
- Ovechkin gets asked to guess his rating in NHL15, gives awesome answers, is delightful. [THN]
- If you need something to go “aww” over, check out these pictures of Karl Alzner playing street hockey with some kids (and Batman) at last weekend’s Race for Every Child. [The Bay Net]
- Finally, happy 53rd birthday to Don Beaupre.