Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s season-ending loss from Vogs (plus game notes), Monumental video (Trotz, Ovechkin, Carlson, Niskanen), NHL.com, WaPo (gamer, Bog’s Best & Worst), CSNW (gamer, blog), WashTimes, Puck Daddy, SB Nation, PHT, ESPN, AP, SI.com, Peerless, RMNB (gamer, game blogs), Frankovic and PensBurgh, TribLive, PPG.
- These Caps really were different, and their demise was preventable. [WaPo]
- Don’t blame Alex Ovechkin. [PHT]
- If not now, when? [B/R]
- The save of the game belonged to Jay Beagle. [SB Nation, Deadspin]
- District Sports Page files its final gamer and hangs up its cleats. [DSP]
- Joe Beninati needs a hug. [CSNMA (video)]
- Notes from the western Pennsylvania end of the ice:
- Three keys to the offseason. [ESPN]
- The Washington Capitals rescued Mike Richards from hockey exile for games like this. Ah, well. [USA Today]
- Pending free agent Jason Chimera doesn’t expect to be anywhere else next year. [WaPo]
- Why Barry Trotz was wrong when he said the Caps’ past doesn’t matter. [CBS DC]
- In slightly happier news, the South Carolina Stingrays staved off elimination with a 4-1 win over Adirondack. Game Seven is tonight. [Caps Outsider]
- Finally, happy 47th birthday to Todd Nelson, and happy 48th birthday to Per Djoos, former Red Wing/Ranger and the father of Caps prospect defenseman Christian Djoos.
- One more: As ever, we would like to thank the Rink’s readers (including commenters and lurkers!) and all the people whose work we link each day. It is a privilege to be a part of the broader Capitals community, and we thank you for spending some time with us each day.