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Your savory breakfast links:
● To check or not to check. Just two of the topics discussed by Caps GM George McPhee and NBC analyst Eddie Olcyk, as they keynoted the 2012 National Hockey Coaches Symposium. [USA Hockey (story, video with bonus Craig Laughlin)]
● Labor Links:
● Toronto rolls out the red carpet for Uncle Ted. [Ted's Take]
● Sweden's Eliteserien has voted to accept locked-out NHLers only if they sign a full year contract. [Puck Worlds, svd.se, Hockeyramblings]
● Though certainly Dmitry Orlov's former KHL GM would like to see him come back. [LiveSport.ru]
● Catching up with Brian Pothier. [Caps365]
● In Caps prospect action, Filip Forsberg's two goals helped AllSvenskan Leksands defeat SEL Skellefteå by a score of 5-2. [Aftonbladet]
● In Caps fill-in-the-blank action, Evgeny Kuznetsov made a commercial for a Chelyabinsk shopping mall while on rollerblades and wearing a Caps hat. Such a tease. [FanShot]
● Oh hai there Jamie Heward, who has been named as assistant coach for the WHL Swift Current Broncos. [Regina Leader-Post]
● In election years, we follow the money. [Slapshot]
● Finally, happy 39th birthday to Andrew Brunette, and happy 53rd to Gary Sampson.
