Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps of last night’s slump-bustin’ win from Corey (blog, article), Tarik (blog, article), Vogs, Joe B., Peerless, Puck Daddy (sorta), Ed Frankovic, Cap Centre, Hockey Mom and Puckhead from the Caps side of things, and The Mercury News for some perspective and quotes from the other side.
- Pictures! [Caps In Pictures]
- Dmitri Chesnokov caught up with last night’s winning ‘tender Semyon Varlamov post-game. [Examiner]
- Alex Ovechkin was on Washington Post Live yesterday, and he nailed his trademark disheveled-but-dapper look. Wait, did I just critique fashion? [Washington Post]
- In case you missed any of yesterday’s transactions, Keith Aucoin was recalled (non-emergency, will only have to clear waivers going back if he’s up for ten games or thirty days), John Erskine was put on IR, and Anton Gustafsson was loaned to a team in Sweden’s second-tier league. [Capitals Insider]
- Pierre LeBrun on the Caps’ new top line du jour. [ESPN]
- The SouthLeast is dead? The SouthLeast is dead! [The Hockey News]
- I will say this of the new round of Bruce Boudreau Mercedes ads – at least they’re less jinx-y than some of his previous work. [D.C. Sports Bog]
- Let it never be said that Brooks Laich isn’t a man of extremely fine taste. [SI.com]
- Any man who goes paintballin’ in shorts is either tough as nails or dumb as bricks. We’ll give our guys the benefit of the doubt. [Caps365 (video)]
- The Caps may not be off to a great start, but their nuclear advertising partner is. [NEI Nuclear Notes]
- Sergei Fedorov keeps on suin’ to get some of his money back. [Detroit Free Press]
- Finally, happy 24th birthday to Jay Beagle and happy 42nd to Joe Murphy.