Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night's loss from us, Caps365 video (Hunter, players), Vogs, Capitals Voice (audio), NHL.com, WaPo (gamer), WashTimes (gamer), CSN Washington (blog), Frankovic, Peerless, SB Nation DC, KOL, DSP, RLS, Caps Daily, Examiner and RMNB, and On Frozen Pond and Litter Box Cats from the Kitties side of things.
- No Semin, No Cry? Maybe. But he'll be back soon. [WashTimes]
- Storylines and perhaps a wee bit of drama upon Tomas Vokoun's return to Florida. [Puck Daddy, On Frozen Pond, WashTimes]
- And then there are the former Caps who have taken their talents to South Beach. [WaPo]
- Hey, realignment! Welcome back, Patrick Division brothers! [Puck Daddy, WaPo, WashTimes, DCEx, Nosebleeds]
- What if the Caps were to blow it up? [ESPN ($)]
- Vokoun knows that he's part of the reason Bruce Boudreau is no longer behind the Caps bench. [CSNW]
- Could Jason Chimera go for 30 this season? [WaPo]
- A bit of fall-out from Sunday's ridiculously outlandish (or is it outlandishly ridiculous) column in The Western Pennsylvania Black and Yellow Journalist or whatever. [Puck Daddy, PHT, and the author that floated the... story, initially, responds]
- More measured thoughts related to Alex Ovechkin's stuggles and the coaching change. [Alex Ovetjkin]
- The funny. It has been brought. [Backhand Shelf]
- AO on the PK - good idea or bad? (My vote's for "bad," but please do use the other Alex there.) [CBC]
- Dale Hunter brings excitement back to D.C. (Know what brings more excitement? Winning.) [Capitals Overtime, Sick Unbelievable]
- The Caps have the League's 10th-most expensive blueline (and they'd probably be getting their money's worth if their best rearguard was healthy). [Hockey Independent]
- Keith Aucoin is just a phenomenal AHL player, and being named the League's current Player of the Week is just another feather in his cap. [AHL.com]
- Catching up with Gabby. [Washingtonian]
- Finally, happy 50th birthday to Chris Valentine.
