Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on yesterday’s win from us, WaPo (blog, gamer, sidebar), Vogs, DCEx, Joe B., Ed Frankovic, Puck Daddy, Peerless, CSN Washington, RMNB, StC, FFODC, Caps In Pictures and Cap Centre.
- This is the latest in a season that the Caps have ever led the Eastern Conference. [@WashCaps]
- Yesterday’s game-winner wasn’t Selke Trophy Finalist Mike Richards‘ finest moment. [FFODC]
- Neither was the Flyer captain’s post-game media scrum. [Broad Street Hockey]
- Nicklas Backstrom talks Olympics. [Alex Ovetjkin]
- Mmm… crow. [FanHouse]
- “Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis is negotiating against a Wednesday deadline to buy the Washington Wizards and Verizon Center from the estate of sports entrepreneur Abe Pollin.” [WaPo]
- Speaking of The Boss and The Post, Leonsis responds to Tom Boswell‘s assertion that hockey’s just too darn fast. [Ted’s Take]
- Me linking to something referring to this site as “a phenomenal aggregator of Caps-centric news and analysis spiced by opinion bon mots and reader posts” is way meta, no? [Patriot-News]
- On the international rivalry contained in Hershey’s (sometimes) top blueline pairing. [OFB]
- Finally, on this date back in 1995, the Caps traded Kevin Hatcher to Dallas for Mark Tinordi and Rick Mrozik. Could the Caps and Stars be trade partners again fifteen years later?