Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s overtime loss from us, Vogs, NHL.com (Masisak), WaPo (Carrera: blog, gamer), DCEX (McNally), CSN Washington (Beninati), Caps365 video (Boudreau, players), ESPN (Barnaby), Peerless, Frankovic, RMNB, FanHouse (Gretz), Caps News Network, StC, KoL, OFB, TBD, Inside Hockey, Caps ‘Round the Clock, WC2010, Capitals Outsider, Caps in Pictures (pics) and clydeorama (pics).
- Neither Sidney Crosby nor David Steckel will receive any discipline from the League after their much-publicized Winter Classic collision. [CI, Post-Gazette, SI (Hackel), SB Nation DC]
- Reliving Saturday night’s National Anthem. [D.C. Sports Bog]
- Eric Fehr is hoping his big night in Pittsburgh is a sign of things to come going forward… [CI]
- … but not before doing a phoner with Versus. [Vs]
- Look for Semyon Varlamov to be an impact second-half player (as if he hasn’t been in the first half). [Sporting News]
- Remember when Caps fans were outraged – outraged! – that Alexander Semin wasn’t on the All-Star Ballot and calmed themselves with the notion that at least he’d be named to the team? Yeah, maybe not so much. [ESPN (LeBrun and Burnside)]
- Mike Milbury has a few thoughts on Alex Ovechkin and the Caps. C’mon… you know you’re gonna click. [PHT]
- What’s eating AO anyhow? [Puck Daddy]
- The HBO cameras are gone, and we’re all looking forward to tonight’s final episode of 24/7, but it’s time to get back to work. [Ted’s Take, CSN Washington (Raby)]
- What a Winter Classic in D.C. might look like. [We Love DC]
- Steinz gets to the bottom of the Caps’ awesomely cringe-worthy celebratory tunage. [D.C. Sports Bog]
- Jeff Schultz: Hall of Famer. Sorta. [MeiGray]
- A few measured words about the rivalry within The Rivalry. [Peerless]
- No more Southleast! [On Frozen Pond, Box Seats]
- C’mon, MoJo. Pick up your socks in the dot. [Puck Daddy]
- It’s January 5 and we’re posting something from New Year’s Day… because it’s that awesome. [Truth About It (h/t Mr. I)]
- Russia’s WJC team has quite the Capital presence on it… [Capitals]
- … including (nickname alert) “The Magician.” [Buzzing The Net]
- And the future is bright for Russian hockey (per Evgeny Kuznetsov), so there should be a plenty large pool from which to pick for George McPhee for years to come. [Puck Agency]
- Oh, and the Canadians have a future Cap of their own. [Winnipeg Sun, Swift Current Online]
- Previewing the Gold Medal game. [THN, Sportsnet, The Record]
- Finally,happy 23rd birthday to Mathieu Perreault, happy 36th to Mike Grier and happy 43rd to Joé Juneau.