Your savory breakfast links:
- Be sure to tune in tomorrow morning at ten for another killer episode of Japers’ Rink Radio as Pepper and Russell welcome Frank Seravalli, Flyers beat writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, to look ahead to next week’s Caps/Flyers game, and our good friend WNST’s Ed Frankovic to discuss the state of the team.
- Previews of tonight’s clash with the Canucks from Vogs, NHL.com, WaPo (Wang), Peerless, WC2010 and KOL, and be sure to check out our SB Nation partner Nucks Misconduct for more coverage from the other side of tonight’s match up.
- Assuming that Vancouver’s Alex Burrows is playing tonight… watch your man-area, boys. [Puck Daddy]
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday’s practice. [Caps365 video (Boudreau, Green/Backstrom), DCEx (McNally), CI (Wang)]
- In case you missed it, Brian Willsie was re-assigned to Hershey. See you in another four or five years, B. [Capitals]
- Has it really been terrible luck lately? [CI, PHT]
- The Caps are apparently pacing themselves, but they don’t realize they’re doing it. [D.C. Sports Bog, SB Nation DC, The Strangest One Of All]
- Dear Caps: Please start winning. Signed, D.C. [SB Nation DC]
- Setting an over/under of 36 goals and 61 assists for Alex Ovechkin for the season. Which are you bettin’? [ESPN (LeBrun/Burnside)]
- Explaining AO’s first-half slump with paragraphs… [Hockey Independent]
- … and a flowchart… [RtR]
- … and maybe even a Cartman reference. [National Post]
- Yesterday’s radio hits:
- Brooks Laich on The Sports Junkies… [106.7 The Fan (audio)]
- … Mike Green on LaVar and Dukes… [106.7 The Fan (audio)]
- … and Alan May on The Sports Reporters. [ESPN 980 (audio)]
- Semyon Varlamov is the man… for now. [RMNB]
- Lamenting the mid-season woes. [OFB]
- John Carlson for Calder. [The Puck Stops Here]
- Really good reads on Carlson’s partner, Karl Alzner, as the Caps ready to play his hometown team. [The Province, Vancouver Sun]
- Laich for Selke. [Globe and Mail (Mirtle)]
- Your organizational three stars for the week ending yesterday. [RtR]
- What to do with you-know-who. [Box Seats]
- Smokey, this is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules. And, apparently, Capitals. [RtR]
- The Bears aren’t used to seasons like this one. [THN]
- Congrats to former Bear Bryan Helmer, the AHL’s all-time leading scorer among blueliners. [The Voice of Sports]
- Finally, very happy birthday wishes to Alan May.