Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s win from us, WaPo (blog, gamer, Vogs, DCEx, Joe B., Ed Frankovic, Peerless, OFB, RMNB, FFODC, Puck Daddy, Caps in Pictures and The Two-Line Pass.
- Semyon Varlamov skated yesterday. Huzzah. [CI]
- The last time the Caps had eight wins in a row, last night’s winning goaltender, Michal Neuvirth, had just turned one year old. [Capitals]
- If you, like the rest of us, thought that Ted Leonsis purchasing the Verizon Center and the Wizards was a done deal, guess again. [WaPo]
- Alex Ovechkin is powerful. Very powerful. [D.C. Sports Bog]
- The Caps haven’t intensified contract negotiations with Nicklas Backstrom yet, and may be in the market for a second-line center and/or a top-four defenseman… [The Fourth Period]
- … even though “If the trade deadline was tomorrow,” [George] McPhee says, “we wouldn’t do anything.” What’d you think he’d say? [USA Today]
- Eric Fehr is a man of the people. [D.C. Sports Bog]
- The Caps will wear special 35th anniversary patches on February 5 and auction off the jerseys after the game. [Capitals]
- Want to meet Tomas Fleischmann and eat mediocre food in the same place? Head to the ESPN Zone tonight. [Capitals]
- There’s no truth to the urban legend that red cars get pulled over more often than other-colored vehicles, but this guy’s certainly going to put that to the test. [TwitPic]
- Finally, happy 44th birthday to Michal Pivonka.