Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s win (in the standings, at least) from Corey (blog, article), Tarik (blog, article), Vogs, Joe B., Ed Frankovic, Peerless, Examiner, Fight For Old DC, Storming the Crease and Canes Country.
- Plenty of additional coverage of the Alex Ovechkin hit/injury from Capitals Insider (“slight limp” and “not using crutches”… reason for cautious optimism?) Puck Daddy, The Hockey News, SportingNews, OFB, ESPN, FanHouse and Red and Black Hockey.
- One wonders if Bret Hedican would have openly called AO a “joke” (before even seeing last night’s hit, no less) if he still had to face him eight times per year. [@hedicanbret]
- Mike Green is scheduled to be on NHL Live! today. [NHL.com]
- A handful of great Caps nuggets from the always solid Elliotte Friedman. [CBC]
- Semyon Varlamov doesn’t get a mention for which rookie has meant the most to his team, but is definitely a legitimate Calder Trophy candidate. Eh, we’ll take it. [Puck Daddy]
- Varly “almost certainly” will make Team Russia, per Ken Campbell. [The Hockey News]
- Plenty of new power rankings are out, with the Caps holding at third at SportingNews, holding at fourth at Sportsnet, holding at fifth at TSN, holding at sixth at ESPN and CBSSports, and down one to fourth at The Hockey News.
- AO’s Men’s Journal spread is apparently about to hit newsstands, and it sure sounds as if the photo shoot was fun. [Reliable Source]
- Video of Quintin Laing‘s awesome mouth-wired-shut interview on CSN. [FanShot]
- Mo, Mo and Movember moustaches. [D.C.Sports Bog]
- As many as a half-dozen Caps prospects could be headed to the World Junior Championships. [Washington Times]
- More on some Caps prospects. [Hockey’s Future]
- Sergei Fedorov defers to Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin and Ilya Kovalchuk. [FanShot]
- Bear Tracks! [LDN]
- Finally, thanks to everyone who made November another record-setting month here at The Rink – visits were up nearly 10% and page views were up more than 17% over our record-setting October. Here’s to an even better and bigger December.