Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s big win from us, Caps365 video (Hunter, Caps players), Vogs, Capitals Voice, NHL.com, WaPo (gamer), WashTimes (gamer), CSNW (gamer, Beninati), 106.7 The Fan, Puck Daddy, PHT, SB Nation DC, Frankovic, Peerless, DSP, RMNB, KOL, RtR, Caps Outsider, and Caps B-Ball.
- A slow first period turned scary when Jason Chimera was assessed a five-minute major and a game misconduct after his hit on Adam McQuaid went awry… [WaPo, WashTimes, ESPN, Sick Unbelievable, NHL.com, CSNW, Backhand Shelf, DCEx]
- … and then got downright terrifying when Tomas Vokoun abruptly left the ice and Michal Neuvirth took his place … [WaPo, WashTimes (and again)]
- … and an eventual tie game led to the skills competition, Matt Hendricks‘ patented Stanky Leg Special®, sweetness from Sasha Semin, top shelf bliss from Brooks Laich, and one very vexed former Vezina winner. [WaPo, Eye on Hockey, Boston Herald, SB Nation DC, Sick Unbelievable, RMNB]
- Two huge points. [WaPo, WashTimes]
- Alex Ovechkin met with Russia’s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl youth team at TD Garden yesterday. Awww. And also awesome. [Boston Herald (story and video)]
- In other AO news, he may be turning Japanese. [DC Sports Bog]
- Oh and hey, now you know the secrets of shooting like the Great 8. [Maple Ridge News]
- We’re number ten! [William World News]
- Here’s your chance to vote for the cover boy for EA’s NHL 13. The Caps’ choices are Brooksie and RAHJC, though personally Imma write-in Hendy’s shootout move. [covervote.nhl.com, FanPost]
- Evgeny Kuznetsov even makes assists on empty-net goals exciting. Traktor Chelyabinsk now leads Avangard Omsk one game to none in the KHL’s Eastern Conference Final. [YouTube, just after the 6-minute mark]
- Speaking of Kuzya: “If roulette is your game, Kuznetsov makes for a good draft day pickup.” Fantasy draft day, that is. [Dobber Hockey]
- Once-and-future goaltending prospect Steffen Søberg appears to be on the move – to another Norwegian team. [Elite Prospects, h/t MalinA.]
- Finally, happy 41st birthday to Jamie Heward and happy 59th to Dennis Ververgaert, and here’s to the memory of the late Doug Wickenheiser, who would have turned 51 today.