Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s shootout loss from us, Vogs (plus game notes), Monumental video (Trotz, Holtby, Beagle, Backstrom, Niskanen, 40th Anniversary Scott Stevens tribute), CSNW, NHL.com, AP, WaPo (gamer, blog), Peerless, DSP (plus three stars), RMNB, and from the Oily end of the ice, Edmonton Journal and Copper and Blue.
- Poor goal-cam never even saw it coming. [THN]
- Penalties are killing the Caps. [CSNW]
- Postgame Trotz: “I said to the guys, ‘Maybe we don’t make the playoffs…” [CSNW]
- … and more of the interview, explicated. [RMNB]
- The one that got away – Edmonton revisits an all-too-soon trade. [faceoff.com]
- Well at least we got to see Matt Hendricks again. [Caps Outsider]
- News and notes from yesterday’s morning skate:
- In general. [Dump ‘n Chase, Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Rinkside Update/Beagle, Trotz, Carlson)]
- Brian MacLellan issued his “State of the Season” address. [Monumental (video), WaPo (and again), Kukla’s Korner, NBC4, PHT]
- Fantasy Nicklas Backstrom is fantastic (ditto reality Nicklas Backstrom, by the by). [NHL.com]
- “My heart and soul is here in Washington…I mean, I want to win a Cup here.” We concur, Mike Green . [CSNW]
- Caps prospect Travis Boyd was named the Big Ten Third Star o’ the Week. [Gopher Athletics]
- Finally, happy 65th birthday to Ron Anderson.