Your savory breakfast links:
- We’ll lead with lockout stuff today:
- The League canceled one more game yesterday, but it wasn’t a Caps game, so who cares? [Puck Daddy (and again and again), ESPN (and again), SI, WaPo, WashTimes]
- But wait! There’s movement! [TSN, ESPN, PHT]
- But wait! If the movement was really all that significant, would the League have cancelled the Winter Classic long before most thought necessary? [common sense]
- Blaming “the hardliners.” [Puck Daddy, and if you missed our discussion on a member of that group, unmiss it here]
- Is it time to bring in a third-party to straighten this out? [Backhand Shelf]
- Uh oh – the dreaded “open letter.” [Sporting News]
- Finally, you may not have needed an unofficial hip-hop anthem for the lockout, but you’ve got one. [Puck Daddy]
- Is that a banana or is BIK Karlskoga just happy to see Marcus Johansson? [RMNB]
- Not breaking news: they love them some Ovi over in Russia. [Alex Ovetjkin]
- Just how intimidating is Washington’s hockey team’s name? [Backhand Shelf]
- Looks like Karl Alzner is missing Johansson and Nick Backstrom quite a bit. [@karlalzner]
- Nice night for Caps prospects in Hershey, as Braden Holtby stops 31 shots and Stanislav Galiev scores the game-winning shootout goal in Springfield. [Patriot-News, Stucc’s, SHoE]
- Down a level, Philipp Grubauer picked up his first win for Reading. [Royals (PDF)]
- Djoos news! [FanPost]
- A little love for the Demon Barber of Oak Street. (Did I make that nickname up? I even looked up the rink’s address, so credit for that at least…) [THN, HF]
- Jeff Halpern is helping to bring you a one-stop shop for fried chicken and doughnuts. Thank him later. [WaPo]
- Finally, happy 43rd birthday to Jim McKenzie.