Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on yesterday’s loss from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Trotz, Holtby, Ovechkin, Kuznetsov, Backstrom, Ward, Chimera, AV, Rangers room), NHL.com, WaPo (gamer, blog, blog, photos), CSNW (gamer, blog, blog), WashTimes, PHT (and again), AP, ESPN, theScore, RMNB (gamer, game blogs), DSP, Stars and Sticks (gamer, blog) and from the NYR bench, BSB, MSG.com, NYDN, NY Post.
- Another day, another unfair Alex Ovechkin all-world goal. Please to be appreciate. [NY Post, NHL.com, THN, WaPo, SunMedia, “Simplement Spectaculaire!”]
- The Caps bench was mic’d up when Ovi scored. Woo! [Highlight Hub]
- Braden Holtby gave his team a chance. [NHL.com]
- Best and worst, Bog-style. [DC Sports Bog]
- “Someone has to write about the NY intimidation of the officials, so I did here.” [Frankovic]
- Cheers to the Ovi and Henry Show, which is basically the best thing ever. [THN]
- Notes from the Garden end of the ice:
- Kreider, Kreider, Kreider! [NY Post, NYT, NJ.com]
- King Henrik managed the late-game mayhem… barely. [NatPo]
- Figuring out how to match the Caps’ physicality. [NYT]
- John Erskine‘s 2011 Winter Classic dance partner Mike Rupp has the Rangers in seven, probably. [The Player’s Tribune]
- Farm report:
- The Hershey Bears have an opponent for the next round of the Calder Cup playoffs. By virtue of Manchester’s defeat of Providence, the Hartford Wolfpack are ticketed to the the Giant Center on Wednesday, which means Caps/NYR will contest a playoff game on the same night as their AHL affiliates face off for… a playoff game. [Patriot-News]
- Philipp Grubauer started and won the series-clinching Game Four for the Bears, which made him only the fifth goalie in NHL history to play at both levels in a single postseason. [NHL.com]
- The fourth and deciding game was a 10-4 Bears victory, the sweetness of which was disturbed by injuries to Stanislav Galiev and Philipp Grubauer. They are each listed as day-to-day with UBI. [Patriot-News]
- But you can still enjoy these outstanding game photos and handshake line video. [Chocolate Hockey, Patriot-News (video)]
- Down a level, the South Carolina Stingrays have outscored the Florida Everblades 12-5 over the past two nights to go up 2-0 in their second round series.
- Madison Bowey and the Kelowna Rockets can claim the WHL Western Conference title tonight with a win over the Portland Winterhawks. The Rockets currently hold a 3-2 lead in the series. [WHL.ca]
- Finally, happy 61st birthday to Robbie Moore, happy 58th to Rod Langway, and happy 38th to hometown hero Jeff Halpern.
- One more: He’s coming, folks.
Congrats to Jakub Vrana (@JVranaa) on his first @theAHL goal tonight during Hershey’s 10-4 win. #hbh pic.twitter.com/MpUouysqCp
— Chocolate Hockey (@ChocHockey) May 2, 2015