Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s win from Caps365 video (Boudreau, players), Vogs, WashTimes (Whyno), CI (Carrera), CSN Washington (Gormley, Beninati), DCEx (McNally here and here), Frankovic, SB Nation DC (Vingan), OFB, Clydeorama (pics) and Caps In Pictures (pics).
- Enough with the preseason – time for the games that matter a bit more (the 82-game lead up to the games that matter a lot more). [WashTimes (Whyno)]
- Previewing the season ahead. [NHL.com (Masisak)]
- It looks like Troy Brouwer has won this year’s edition of the “Alex Ovechkin‘s Right Wing” lottery (note: previous winners Chris Clark and Viktor Kozlov were not on-hand to congratulate Brouwer). [WashTimes (Whyno)]
- And a third line of Jason Chimera, Brooks Laich and Joel Ward seems to be in the cards. We’re fans. [CI (Carrera), CSN Washington (Gormley), DCEx (McNally)]
- Mathieu Perreault and Jay Beagle have made their cases to stay. [DCEx (McNally), Examiner (Hoffman)]
- Dmitry Orlov‘s situation is less clear – could he break camp with the big club? [DCEx (McNally), CI (Carrera)]
- It appears as if no one told Michal Neuvirth he’s supposed to be the second-best goalie on this team. And that’s a good thing. [KOL]
- But no, there’s no goalie controversy here. [CW (Whyno)]
- Prognosticatin’ on John Carlson… [Peerless]
- … who’s a great value. [Puck Daddy]
- A look ahead to John Erskine‘s season as well. [Peerless]
- How the schedule could impact the 2011-12 Caps… [PHT]
- … and how, well, other things might. [Capital Spirit]
- Catching up with The Secretary of Defense. [Capitals Voice]
- Danny Rouhier was kind enough to have me on Overtime last week, and if you missed it and haven’t been able to live with yourself since, here’s your redemption. [Audio (via 106.7 The Fan)]
- Finally, happy 39th birthday to Michael Nylander.