Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s loss from us, Vogs, NHL.com, WaPo (Carrera: blog, gamer), CSN Washington (Beninati), Caps365 video (Boudreau, players), Frankovic, RMNB, Peerless, KOL, Puckhead, PHT, WC2010 and SB Nation DC.
- Tom Poti‘s return to health- yeah, let’s just stop right there. [NHL.com (Masisak)]
- John Carlson and Karl Alzner rank among the League’s best defensive blueliners to date. [Globe and Mail (Mirtle)]
- So what are the Caps’ best line combinations anyway? [Insider2]
- Barry Melrose and Matt Barnaby on whether the Caps are contenders or pretenders. [ESPN (video)]
- Radio hits: Brooks Laich will be on The Sports Junkies at 8:45 this morning and Mike Green will be on LaVar and Dukes at 4:45 this afternoon, both on 106.7 The Fan.
- Speaking of Green, buy or sell him as a worthy All-Star? [KOL]
- Who’ve you got for Caps first-half goat? [Puck Daddy]
- A look back at Russia’s gold medal junior team. [HF, Sports Haze]
- The future is bright, so… there’s that. [FCN]
- Welcome to a new Caps blog.[D.C. Sports Bog]
- Finally,happy 57th birthday to Mike Palmateer.