Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s win from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Trotz, Holtby, Orpik, Honest Abe Brouwer, Beagle, Niskanen, Vigneault, Rangers room), NHL.com, WaPo (gamer, blog, blog, Bog’s Best & Worst), CSNW (blog, blog), WashTimes, Puck Daddy (and again), SB Nation, PHT, AP, ESPN, The Score, Frankovic, Peerless, RMNB and DSP and from the NYR bench, BSB, doinow, Ranger Rants, NYDN (and again and again), NY Post (and again and again), NYT.
- All Beagle, all the time for the lone goal of the night. [Capitals Voice, ESPN, RMNB, Blue Seat Blogs]
- Scenes from a winning room. [Monumental (video)]
- Braden Holtby is your would, could and should. [DC Sports Bog, SI, CSNW, RMNB]
- More from Elias: Braden Holtby posted the second shutout of his NHL playoff careeer with a 1-0 win in Washington in Game 3 of the Capitals‘ series against the Rangers. Holtby notched his first postseason shutout exactly two years earlier (May 4, 2013) against the same team, in the same city, by the same score (though that game was decided in overtime). He’s the sixth goaltender in NHL history whose first two playoff shutouts were 1-0 wins. The others are Tiny Thompson (1929), George Hainsworth (1927 and 1930), Frank McCool (1945), Jean-Sebastien Giguere (2003) and Evgeni Nabokov (2001 and 2004).
- The pressure has once again shifted back to the higher seed (and their higher-paid). [THN]
- Notes from pregame:
- In general. [Monumental video (Trotz, Backstrom, Brouwer, Wilson), Dump ‘n Chase, Ranger Rants]
- See ya, Nate Schmidt – hope you learned something while you were here. [WashTimes, CSNW]
- Desperate for secondary scoring the Caps
werearewereare. [WaPo, CSNW] - The Rangers planned to start quick (and did). Take note, Caps. [RMNB]
- They also planned to be tougher (and were). [ESPN]
- All eyes on you, Rick Nash, whether you deserve them or not. [WaPo, National Post, Blue Seat Blogs]
- May the fourth be with you, nerds. [WaPo, RMNB]
- With a strong playoffs so far, it’s time for another round of, “No, really, Alex Ovechkin is really good at hockey.” [Globe and Mail, Puck Daddy, The National]
- Leftover from Game 2: What worked and what didn’t. [Rink]
- The 25 moments from every NHL playoff series. [Grantland]
- The Bears are four-lines deep, which must be nice. [Patriot-News (with more here)]
- But enough about this season, how about next year? [Stars and Sticks]
- Finally, happy 50th birthday to Grant Jennings, who is the only player in franchise history to have appeared in the playoffs for the Caps but never a regular season game.