Your savory breakfast links:
- Breaking down a trio of things the Caps will need to focus on in the coming season to make them a contender. [Rink]
- News and notes from yesterday out at camp:
- In general. [Monumental video (Trotz, Oshie, Roy, Williams, Brown)]
- He may only be in town on a PTO, but Derek Roy is carving out a place for himself on the team in hopes of making it permanent. [WaPo]
- Another round of cuts has 2015 draftee Jonas Siegenthaler headed back to Switzerland, and Dan Ellis to waivers (and then hopefully to Hershey). [WaPo]
- Cuts aside, GM Brian MacLellan may not be quite done with his tinkering. [CSNMA]
- The rest of the Caps’ blueline is adjusting to life without Mike Green for the first time in a decade. [Pressbox DC]
- Alex Ovechkin will also need to adjust to the loss, and find someone new to feed his patented shot from the “Ovi spot”. [CSNMA]
- Ovechkin has won plenty of individual awards, but one shiny silver team one eludes him… and because of that, the rest of the League should be scared. [USA Sports]
- He and the Caps could be in the running in the next handful of years. Hopefully. Maybe. Start praying, people! [Grantland (DGB)]
- A look at the ch-ch-changes in the Metropolitan Division. Turn and face the strange, indeed. [PPP]
- Leftovers from Thursday’s win in Montreal. [Dump ‘n Chase, EOTP, Stars and Sticks]
- Usually a building in which he shines, Bell Centre was not the happiest place for Braden Holtby Thursday night. [WaPo]
- T.J. Oshie has got some slick moves which resulted in his first goal of the preseason (followed by a pretty nifty shootout goal). [WaPo]
- Will Oshie score 30 goals this year? Place yer bets? Or don’t and just laugh at those who do. [RMNB]
- Having someone like Oshie on the roster means the Caps are perfectly happy to take their chances in the shootout. [Puck Daddy]
- Could offseason roster changes mean trouble for the Caps’ penalty kill? [RMNB]
- Placing the over/under lines on all 30 NHL teams. [The Score]
- Connor Hobbs is back with his Regina Pats after two weeks at Caps’ camp, lessons in hand about what it takes to skate with the pros. [Global Regina, Leader Post]
- Finally, happy 35th birthday to Brooks Orpik.