Your savory Saturday brunch links:
- Program Note: Be sure to check out Japers’ Rink Radio at 10:00 EDT this morning, as Stephen and Russell chat with very special guests Karl Alzner and TSN.ca’s Scott Cullen (who will discuss this article, among other topics) and take your calls. 99.9% chance of awesome.
- Mathieu Perreault gets a pair of wings and the title of PrĂ©sident d’Honneur of a hockey tournament in his hometown of Drummondville. The poster for said tourney is to the right –>. WANT. [Hockey Aborigine]
- Tarik El-Bashir reports that defenseman and pending UFA Shaone Morrisonn‘s phone has been silent this summer. The month of Movember may never be the same in the Caps’ dressing room. [Caps Insider]
- Meet Ross Mahoney, the Regina-based head scout of the Washington Capitals [Star Phoenix]
- The Sporting News ranked their top 25 athletes under the age of 25. Two hockey players made the
listtop five. Go on, guess. [Sporting News] - It’s nearly time for the NHL Awards, which means:
- The NHL.com team makes a case for each of the Hart nominees. [NHL.com]
- Canwest makes a case for Mike Green and the Norris. [Montreal Gazette]
- Alex Ovechkin is Stateside once again. [TEB via Alex Ovetjkin]
- In former Caps news, Chris Clark has been named to the NHL’s Competition Committee and voted Friday on the League’s new headshot rule. [NHL.com]
- An impressive retrospective of the Hershey Bears’ impressive season – Eleventh Heaven. [The AHL]
- Cody Eakin was certainly impressed. [Prairie Post]
- But that’s not the smell of Chocolate in the air in Hershey, that’s the smell of Change. [Hershey Bears Hockey]