Your savory brunch links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s win from Corey (blog, gamer), Tarik (blog, gamer), Vogs, DCEx (blog, gamer), Hockey Mom, Ed Frankovic, Storming the Crease, Caps Nut, Fight For Old DC and In Lou We Trust.
- Coverage of Alexander Semin’s contract extension from TWT, WaPo, DCEx and CBC.
- In case you missed it, Nicklas Backstrom has been named to Sweden’s Olympic team.
- Wait, so Russia’s final Olympic roster may not be their final Olympic roster? [ESPN]
- Hockey Night’s team of pundits don’t have Mike Green making Team Canada… [CBC]
- … But their biggest talking head does. [CBC]
- Alex Ovechkin is the seventh-biggest villain to ever visit The Igloo, but he’s got two games left to force a revision to the list. [Post-Gazette]
- AO talks Olympics, Ilya Kovalchuk, and influence. [RMNB]
- “Usually we speak of other players on other teams begrudgingly, ‘Yeah, he’s good.’ But Ovechkin? I don’t mind saying he’s REALLY good.” – Oilers center Shawn Horcoff [Edmonton Journal]
- Larry Brooks hands out his end-of-the-decade awards. [NYPost]
- Braden Holtby was magnificent in Hershey’s win last night. He’s a sparkling 6-1-1/1.24/.955 in the AHL this season. [LDN]
- Finally, per the HHoF, on this date back in 2000, “Washington’s Peter Bondra scored four goals, including his 15th career hat trick in the second period as the Capitals won 5-1 against the Senators at Ottawa. It was Bondra’s fifth career four-goal game.”