Tuesday Caps Clips

Your savory breakfast links:

• "This was already an exceedingly good team, and its brilliant general manager just made it one hell of a lot better." [Puck Daddy]
  • See also: Hail!  [Homer McFanboy]
  • Also see also: Capology. [Red Line Station]
• A closer look at Tomas Vokoun and the man whose spot on the roster he's taking... [CBC]
• ... and thoughts on what it means for the man (men?) with whom he'll share the cage. [CRtC, DCEx]
• The new netminder gives an interview back home which Google brilliantly translates (pay particular attention to the Ovechkin/Neuvirth question). [iSport.cz via Google Translate]
  
• The Captain is happy to be back in the United States of America in North America on this side of the Atlantic. [Puck Daddy]
  • How happy? This happy. [@Matt_Leighton, and nice to see AO's baby is being babysat]
  • Update: AO, the timeline. [D.C. Sports Bog]
    
• Jeff Schultz participated in a "dramatic reading" of the Declaration of Independence yesterday. Didn't see that one coming. [RMNB]
• The Caps have signed depth defenseman Danny Richmond to hopefully never play in Washington. [CI]
• Good news on good causes: the Dave Fay Memorial Hockey Game is locked and loaded for July 23. [Peerless]
• Finally, happy 33rd birthday to Chris Hajt, happy 35th to Dwayne Zinger, and happy 50th to Todd Bidner.