Thursday Caps Clips: Over and Out

Your savory breakfast links:

• Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s season-ending overtime loss from us, Vogs (plus game notes), Monumental video (Trotz, Holtby, Ward, Fehr, Brouwer, Ovechkin, Alzner, Vigneault, Rangers room), NHL.com, WaPo (gamer, blog, Bog’s Best & Worst, photos), CSNW (gamer, blog), WashTimes, Puck Daddy (and again), SB Nation, PHT, ESPN, AP, Frankovic, RMNB (gamer, game blogs) and DSP and from the NYR bench, BSB, Lohud, NJ.com.
  • “Defeat is not your undertaker,” and more from Barry Trotz. [PHT]
  • “There’s no regrets in this room,” and more from Braden Holtby. [RMNB, CSNW]
  • “We deserve a better result,” and more from Alex Ovechkin. [PHT]
  • This time, there is no one to blame. [CSNW]
  • Holtby/Lundqvist moves to Number Eight on the all-time playoff goalie duel list. [538]
  • From Elias: The Rangers overcame a three-games-to-one deficit to win the series, but the Blueshirts’ victories in Games Five, Six and Seven would not have been possible if Chris Kreider had not tied the score for the Rangers at 1-1 with 1:41 left to play in regulation time in Game Five. The only other NHL team to win Game Seven of a playoff series after trailing in the last two minutes of the third period in a potential elimination game earlier in the series was the Penguins against the Sabres in 2001. Down three-games-to-two, Mario Lemieux tied Game Six at 18:42 of the third period and Pittsburgh won in overtime to deadlock the series, with the Penguins prevailing in OT in Game Seven as well.
• Notes from the New York end of the ice:
  • Game Sevens on May 13 are Henrik Lundqvist ‘s cup of tea. [Puck Daddy]
  • It’s decent if your first career OT GWG takes your team to the Conference final. [Newsday]
  • Home ice matters. [Rangers Review]
  • The Rangers found a way. [ESPN]
  • Congrats or whatever, RangersNation. [NY Post]
• This team loves playing together and they’re not ready for it to end. [WaPo]
• Will he or won’t he? Rumors are swirling about Eric Fehr possibly returning to duty. [CSNW]
• Joel Ward gets hockey better than lazy sportswriters. [Deadspin]
• Joe Beninati chatted with the fine folk at our SB Nation cross-town cousins. [Hogs Haven]
• King me? The Caps’ checkered Game Seven past. [Lohud]
• The top (or is it bottom) five most disappointing players in this year’s playoffs… [THW]
• … and the top breakout players. [THW]
• Stakes are high for Rick Nash and Alex Ovechkin. [PHT]
• Finally, happy 46th birthday to Todd Nelson,.