Your savory breakfast links:
- Last week started up and ended down. What does that mean for our Ups and Downs? Ups and downs (duh). [Rink, and also be sure to check in on RMNB’s Snapshot of the week that was and some thoughts from CSNW]
- Yeah, so what’s up with that whole “first-line right wing” thing? [NHL.com, WaPo]
- That’s all well and good, but who’s helping them win? [Rink (and, believe it or not, we’ll have more on this later this morning)]
- Jay “FLINO” Beagle kicked it old school to crank up the o-ffense. [NHLPA]
- Pretty wretched special teams on Sunday, eh? [WaPo]
- Of all the guys listed as trade targets, the one the Caps should go after is Mike Green. Wait, what? [NHL.com, CSNW]
- Looking ahead to tomorrow night’s Caps/Pens match-up. [CSNW (video), Post-Gazette]
- ♫ Then they saw the stats… now Mac’s a believer… ♪ [ESPN]
- Hockey teams ranked according to power. [ESPN, THN, The Score, SB Nation]
- All coaches are dinosaurs and the NHL is Jurassic Park. [Stars and Sticks, Puck Daddy]
- You won’t see a cuter kid in a Caps jersey today than this one, guaranteed. [Rink]
- Hulking blueliner Michal Cajkovsky skated up front for the Bears, who kept it rolling over the weekend… [Patriot-News]
- … and will have to continue to do so without Liam O’Brien for a bit. [Patriot-News, Chocolate Hockey]
- Oh, we buried the lede on that one – Nate Schmidt has been cleared for contact.
- Prospect Steve Spinner is a USHL Player of the Week. [USHL]
- Finally,happy 57th birthday to Tim Coulis and happy 29th birthday to Wojtek Wolski.