Your savory breakfast links:
- Adam Oates, Hall of Famer. [NHL (video), Caps365 (video, with plenty more coverage as well), Capitals Voice, WashTimes, CSNW, PHT]
- Adam Oates, NHL Head Coach… in theory. [National Post, NYT]
- How Oates and Brett Hull went from inseparable to separated. [SB Nation]
- The latest on the lockout:
- The League has the leverage, so the League ultimately will get what it wants… [Sportsnet]
- … assuming that Donald Fehr can be reasoned with, which is a by-no-means safe assumption. [THN]
- Fehr’s counterpart is, of course, taking plenty of PR bullets himself. [Sportsnet]
- Meanwhile, Steve Fehr says the sides are close on revenue sharing and that a deal could happen quickly… [WashTimes, TSN]
- … while Bill Daly says the players want 65% in Year One. (Good luck reconciling those two points.) [PHT]
- If you thought you’d miss the substance-less mud-slinging leading up to last week’s elections, you’re in luck – there’s plenty to go around in these negotiations. [Spectors Hockey]
- Uh oh, Sid is frustrated. (Cover your respective man-areas, gents.) [Puck Daddy]
- Ovi gives his union’s boss a vote of confidence. [Alex Ovetjkin, with much more from AO]
- How the local loyals are coping. [WaPo]
- So long as 64 is still greater than zero, a 64-game sked sounds good to us. [Peerless]
- “But we did not find ourselves reassured; we found ourselves infuriated further. While we recognized ultimate achievements on the ice, we also recognized you have to be on the ice to achieve the ultimate.” [Yahoo! Sports]
- What’s up, Doc? [RMNB]
- Tom Wilson is “showing all [the] signs of being a beast.” So he’s the next Michael Morse? [@TSNBobMcKenzie]
- Update: He broke Nail Yakupov‘s helmet with a big hit? Egad. [@markhmasters]
- ‘Nuther update: Everyone is talking about That Hit. [TSN video (Team OHL players, TSN broadcast crew)]
- Finally, happy 43rd birthday to Patrik Augusta.