Sunday Caps Clips: Bäckis Back

Your savory breakfast links:

• Recaps and other assorted musings on last night's big win from us, Caps365 video (Hunter, Caps players, Cunneyworth, Habs 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, RMNB (gamer, blog), KOL, OFB, Sick Unbelievable, Caps B-Ball, Hockey Hourly, Caps by Puck (pics) and Clydeorama (pics).
  • Happy Nicklas Backstrom Day, everybody!
    
    • Pregame: [NHL.com, Eye On Hockey, PHT, Puck Daddy, RMNB]
      
    • Midgame: [Sick Unbelievable]
    • Postgame: [WaPo (and again), WashTimes (one, two, three), CSNW (and again), RMNB]
    • And now for a word from the sponsor. [@BauerHockey]
  • The gift of Backstrom should have been sufficient for Fan Appreciation Day, but no. The team had a few other goodies ready for the Verizon Center faithful. [Caps365 (video), Caps Outsider (Jerseys Off Our Backs, Stick Sale)]
• Two Caps wins plus losses by Buffalo and Florida are making the race for the postseason ... interesting. [NHL.com, Eye on Hockey, PHT]
• Good news: Congrats are in order for the Hershey Bears, who lost 3-2 to the St. John's IceCaps last night but still clinched a postseason berth by virtue of losses by Portland and Adirondack. [Patriot-News, SHoE, Caps Outsider]
• More good news: Congrats are also in order for the South Carolina Stingrays, who clinched their playoff berth with a three-goal third period and a 5-2 win over the Greenville Road Warriors. [Stingrays Hockey]
• The game ultimately ended as a 3-2 overtime win for Avangard Omsk, but the second game of the KHL Eastern Conference Final series was really the Evgeny Kuznetsov Show. His first goal is from an impossible angle, the second is a beauty breakaway, and he provides 100% of Traktor's offense with scoring chance after scoring chance in between. [YouTube via the KHL Channel]
  
• Finally, happy 31st birthday to Nolan Yonkman and happier 48th to Scott Stevens.