Friday Caps Clips

Your savory breakfast links:

• Be sure to check out this week's episode of Japers' Rink Radio (10:00 tomorrow morning, available for download thereafter, as Pepper and Russell welcome Caps center Mathieu Perreault and The Globe & Mail's James Mirtle to the show.
• Can the Caps can get over the hump? [The Hockey News]
• The Caps' cupboard is pretty stacked, with more impressive rightwingers than the entire Tea Party movement... but will that be the case a year from today? [Masisak]
• Mike Green on his summer so far (and predicts a Winter Classic win). [Caps365 (video)]
• Tomas Fleischmann is back in town, and Vogs snagged him for a Q&A. (And yes, I'm rock-solid on my prediction that he's the Caps' opening night second-line center.) [Dump 'n Chase]
  
• Flash's return also coincides with an interview from back home that contains a "caption this"-worthy picture. [deník.cz via Google Translate]
• John Erskine wants more ice time (and given Willie Mitchell's decision, he might just get it). [The Whig Standard]
• Let's let D.J. King handle the dirty work, eh, Nicklas Backstrom? [FanShot]
• Caps a-plenty (well, five) in Yahoo's Top 100 fantasy players. [Puck Daddy]
• No one does under-dressed like Ovi. [SovSport]
• AO and Ilya Kovalchuk will face off for charity in Moscow on September 5. [Alex Ovetjkin]
• Could Round 1 of the playoffs feature a battle of nation's capitals? [Masisak]
• "Coming Attractions" for Semyon Varlamov's blog. [Jumping the Glass]
• Braden Holtby's Wikipedia page could use some help. [Capitals Outsider]
  
• Cody Eakin is your new Swift Current Broncos captain. [The Southwest Booster]
• A look at where Jose Theodore might land. [RtR]
• Finally, happy 48th birthday to Adam Oates.