Friday Caps Clips

Your savory breakfast links:

● Armchair GMs, start your Barcaloungers. In a non-expiring CBA-summer, the salary cap could rise to $70.3M. Let's go shopping! [PHT, CapGeek (league overview), CapGeek (Caps overview)]

○ Noodling through some options for the Caps' blueline. [Caps Outsider]

○ And of course that blueline benefits from one of the very best value contracts in the whole league. [Angus Certified]

● Yesterday in year-end reviews:

○ Matt Hendricks... [RtR]

○ ... Mike Green.. [RMNB]

○ ... and Jason Chimera. [CSNW]

● Roundtabling the over- and underachievers of the 2011-2012 season. [DSP]

● The Caps made some real facepalm-y personnel choices throughout the season. But signing and recalling Joel Rechlicz might just be the most headdeskian of them all. [KOL]

● Nicklas Backstrom was certain his season was over ... [Hockey Ramblings]

○ ... and now that it really is over, he's back in his hometown, doing good things for sick children. [Ibid.]