Tuesday Caps Clips

Your savory breakfast links:

• Semyon Varlamov: "My chances of staying in the NHL are high. I would really like to sign a deal in America. Yes, even if it’s for less money than what I am offered in Russia." [CI (Malamud)]
• Mattias Sjogren speaks. Again. (Dude sure has been chatty, eh?) [FanPost]
• Draft week begins... [DCEx (McNally)]
• ... and there are plenty of Caps on the list of notable picks for each draft slot. [NHL.com]
• RMNB offers up a few names that GMGM could call on Friday night. [RMNB, and look for our SBN Hockey Mock Draft pick later this morning]
• How to fix the Caps: sign Michal Handzus? [ESPN (Pollock, $); FanPost]
• Looking back on Mike Knuble's season (and at Brooks Laich?) [Corey's Corner]
• Also, Matt Bradley by the tens... [Peerless]
• ... and Jay Beagle. [Peerless]
• The team released its 2011 preseason schedule yesterday. Does it get any more exciting than this? I think not. [Capitals]
• The case for Laich as a first line centre (which must be different than a first line center, because there's no case to be made for that). [TheLeafsNation]
• How to pick your favorite Cap. [Capitals Outsider]
• Why the Bruins' Cup win should encourage Caps fans. [CRtC]
• Caps nesting dolls make perfect sense in that frequently most of the guys disappears and you're left looking at Ovi. Zing! [Capitals Overtime]
• I'm going to keep plugging tomorrow night's party until every last one of you has RSVP'd (or Thursday rolls around, whichever comes first).
• Finally, happy 61st birthday to Ron Low (whose beauty of a card we used in last year's version of this post) and happy 63rd birthday to Denis Dupere.