Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s loss from us (with quotes), Vogs, Monumental video (Oates, Holtby, Backstrom, Alzner, Green, Oleksy), and photos], NHL.com, WaPo, WashTimes, Peerless, CSNW, F Street Faithful, RMNB, DSP, RTR, and for the view from Canes country, News & Observer, Canes Country.
- Panic? There’s no panic in hockey. [CSNW]
- Hello Sasha my old friend… [Alex Ovetjkin, RMNB]
- Going streaking with the Captain. [PHT, RMNB, Capitals Voice (audio)]
- If you were a bird, John Erskine, what kind of bird would you be? [RMNB]
- So the new guy Alexander Urbom teed it up at the blueline and, well, it was a pretty shot. [NHL.com (video)]
- Your Capitals Minute for today. [Capitals Voice]
- News and notes from game day:
- In general. [Monumental video (Oates, Urbom, Rinkside Update/Brouwer)]
- How Swede it is. [RMNB]
- Erskine and Evgeny Kuznetsov highlight yesterday’s edition of Japers’ Mailbag. [Rink]
- Martin Erat might be a bit frustrated, but isn’t quite to the point of asking for a ticket out of town. Probably. [Eye on Hockey, PHT]
- Insert clever Hertl pun >here<, and then go read about Adam Oates and Teh Controversy. [WaPo, Puck Daddy, Deadspin, USA Today]
- Karl Alzner‘s pups brought their personal shopper to the Kettler pro shop. [DC Sports Bog]
- Meanwhile, down on the farm (teams):
- Dmitry Orlov is still committed to making his hockey career in North America. But first he has to get past a bad case of … pinkeye? [Patriot-News]
- Feels like the first time – Hockey ‘n’ Heels comes to the Giant Center [SHoE]
- The Reading Royals kick off their preseason on Saturday. They promise lots of ice time for Stanislav Galiev, Patrick Wey, and Michal Cajkovsky. Pinky swear! [Patriot-News]
- It’s opening weekend for NCAA hockey:
- Penn State (and Caps prospect Patrick Koudys) kick off their new season tonight against Army, shutdown or no shutdown… [SB Nation College Hockey]
- … Riley Barber and the RedHawks play a home-and-home with Ohio State, and Notre Dame (Thomas DiPauli and Austin Wuthrich) will face off twice with Western Michigan. Caleb Herbert and the Minny-Duluth Bulldogs get two games with Western Michigan… [NCHC Hockey]
- …while Travis Boyd and the Golden Gophers are playing host to the annual 4-team Ice Breaker Tournament. [Gopher Sports]
- Finally, happy 39th birthday to Jason Arnott.