Your savory breakfast links:
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday out at Kettler… and last night out at Verizon Center:
- In general. [Caps365 video (McPhee, Oates, Ovechkin, Holtby, Ward, Fehr, Chimera), WaPo (and again), WashTimes (and again), DSP (and again), Cap Centre, Capitals Outsider, RMNB (pics)]
- Tom Poti practiced last night with the Caps. (Don’t freak out – it isn’t 2010.) [WashTimes, WaPo, DCEx]
- Troy Brouwer dances Gangnam Style. (Don’t freak out – it isn’t 2012.) [Caps365 (video), RMNB]
- Business is business! And business must grow, regardless of crummies in tummies, you know. [Caps365 video (Leonsis), DC Sports Bog (and again), DCEx (and again and again), WaPo, WashTimes, CSNW, 106.7 The Fan (audio), WTOP (audio), NBC4 (video), RMNB]
- Alex Ovechkin is all growed up… [WaPo]
- … making his GM happy… [DC Sports Bog]
- … getting the boss’s blessing to go to Sochi… [WaPo, WashTimes, DCEx]
- … and a prediction for happiness under his new coach… [RMNB]
- … but not the stat geek’s forecast to break Peter Bondra‘s short-season goal mark. [WaPo, TSN]
- “Face it Caps. This is your best goalie, your best in years. Embrace it. Go with it.” [WashTimes]
- All that said… has the window closed? [WashTimes (with more on the strange campaign ahead here)]
- Tremendous post by Vogs on what Adam Oates intends to do to awaken a dormant power play. [Dump ‘n Chase]
- As a former standout at Colorado College, we can go ahead and say that Jack Hillen is giving it the old college try as he attempts to crack the opening night lineup. [CSNW]
- More questions, previews and predictions. [SI, NHL.com (and again), WashTimes, Sick Unbelievable]
- Lots. Of. Radio:
- Brooks Laich is a doll. No, really, Brooks Laich is a doll. [DC Sports Bog]
- Remember the last time Nick Backstrom and Mike Green were both healthy? Yeah, me neither. [Sick, Unbelievable]
- Speaking of Backstrom, a fellow countryman has great expectations for the Caps pivot. [FanShot]
- Eric Fehr and Wojtek Wolski: two men enter… one probably gets hurt. [Puck Daddy, with more on Wolski at NBC4]
- A look at the men behind the Caps masks. [DSP]
- The Ballad of Mathieu Perreault. [Caps Basketball]
- Where to get your drink on pregame
so you don’t have to spend money inside the building. [WaPo, and to see where a couple of Caps were spotted eating cow, click here] - Getting ready behind the scenes. [Puck Buddys]
- Rooting for a former Cap to not become a former NHLer quite yet. [CSNW]
- Congrats to Tomas Kundratek on being named an AHL All-Star. [Bears]
- Finally, in case you missed it (and even if you didn’t), give the vid below a view or two, won’t you?