Your savory breakfast links:
- The last month has been a very good one for blueliner Brooks Orpik (last night notwithstanding). [Rink]
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s loss from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Trotz, Niskanen, Alzner, Orpik, Holtby), NHL.com, AP, WaPo, CSNW, Stars and Sticks, RMNB, DSP (recap, three stars), and from the land of a thousand lakes, Examiner, TwinCities.com, Star Tribune, and Hockey Wilderness.
- Congrats to Curtis Glencross, who scored his first goal as a Cap (and the team’s only goal). [Monumental video, Caps OT]
- For the first time this season, Caps’ captain Alex Ovechkin was a late scratch and is day-to-day with a lower-body injury. [WaPo, WashTimes (and again), CSNW, AP]
- The Caps paid tribute to the military before and during the game as part of Military Night at Verizon Center. [Monumental video (military tribute, intermission shootout, KCI visit), Caps OT (KCI visit, and again, camouflage jerseys), CSNW]
- With the snow keeping many away from the arena last night, some fans went to creative lengths to fill the seats. [WaPo]
- News and notes from yesterday’s pregame skate:
- In general. [Dump ‘n Chase, Monumental video (Trotz, Rinkside Update/Chimera)]
- Andre Burakovsky barely had time to pack upon arriving in Hershey before he was summoned back to DC as an emergency injury recall. [Caps, CSNW, Patriot-News]
- Burakovsky wasn’t the only player making a return; Brooks Laich also returned to the lineup after sitting out a game as a healthy scratch. [WaPo]
- Braden Holtby: still awesome. [NHL.com]
- A little less than a week later, Jack Hillen reflects on the trade that sent him to Carolina. [WaPo]
- Interesting look at the use of analytics in women’s hockey, and how it differs from men’s hockey. [EOTP]