Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s win from us, Caps365 video (Boudreau, players), Vogs, NHL.com, WaPo (Carrera: blog, gamer), DCEx (McNally), CSN Washington (Beninati), 106.7 The Fan (Kerstein), Frankovic, Peerless, RMNB, SB Nation DC, SB Nation DC, KOL, Capitals News Network, Capitals Outsider, TBD (Chamberlain), StC, CRtC, WC2010, clydeorama (pics), Caps In Pictures (pics), bridgetds (pics), The Copper & Blue (Oilers), Cult of Hockey (Oilers), and mc79hockey (Oilers).
- The game puck from Braden Holtby‘s first career shutout gets its own bullet. [mediachameleon, Capitals Outsider]
- Injury News, Part 1: “Iron” Nicklas Backstrom missed his first game as an NHLer last night, but isn’t expected to be out long. [Dump ‘n Chase, CI (Carrera)]
- Injury News, Part 2: Mike Green has been placed on Long-Term Injured Reserve and isn’t eligible to suit up again until March 22… [CSN Washington]
- … but he’s keeping busy with friends in high places. [NHL.com]
- More important than making happy the 18,000-plus at Verizon Center last night? The person Alex Ovechkin made even happier earlier in the day. [NBC Washington]
- Speaking of AO, he got some major face-time on primetime network television the other night, though I must say, he displayed all the personality and charisma of Sidney Crosby. [D.C. Sports Bog]
- Might winning the Southeast Division not be in the Caps’ best interest? [RLS]
- Are Caps fans owed a Cup? [City Paper (McKenna)]
- Is the team peaking at the right time? I, for one, hope that “peaking” involves a bit more than scraping by the Isles (twices), Blues and Panthers. [THW]
- Brooks Laich did his weekly hit on The Junks yesterday. [106.7 The Fan (audio)]
- The Caps are happy with Holtby. Uh, yeah. [ESPN (Hradek, $)]
- Great stuff on Matt Hendricks‘ contract extension. [D.C. Sports Bog]
- The Caps and Bolts are developing a nice little rivalry. [nazarcruce]
- Get to know a new guy: Marco Sturm. [Homer McFanboy]
- As if you hadn’t noticed, the Caps are unbeaten since the trade deadline. [The Towerlight]
- Some thoughts on Dmitry Orlov from someone who should know. [OFB (video)]
- Finally, happy 31st birthday to Stephen Peat and happy 38th to Martin Brochu.