Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s loss from us (with quotes), Vogs, Monumental video (Oates, Ward, Chimera, Brouwer, Fehr), and photos], NHL.com, WaPo, PHT, Peerless, CSNW, RMNB, and DSP (gamer, blog), and for the view from Denver, Mile High Hockey.
- In which Troy Brouwer unleashes some fury. [Rink, RMNB, WaPo, CSNW]
- A stick salute from Semyon. You’re welcome, we guess. [RMNB, CSNW, CapsOutsider]
- Karl Alzner‘s gonna want this one back, or maybe it’s on the whole team. [Eye on Hockey]
- Here’s defenseman Nate Schmidt before his NHL debut… [Monumental (video), Dump ‘n’ Chase, WaPo]
- … during… [RMNB]
- … and after. [mediachameleon (pic), @nateschmidt29]
- Your Capitals Plays of the Week (actually Calls of the Week, amirite?) [Capitals Voice]
- Congrats to former Caps captain Jeff Halpern, who has found a new home in the Arizona desert with the Yotes, albeit on a two-way contract. [USA Today, Five for Howling]
- Meanwhile, down on the farm (teams):
- With an early goal and a brutal late giveaway for the go-ahead grape, it was the best and worst of games for Tomas Kundratek as the Baby Pens beat the Bears 3-1. [Patriot-News, SHoE]
- Stanislav Galiev provided the Reading Royals with their only tally in their second pre-season game. [ECHL]
- Riley Barber is picking up right where he left off last season, with a four-goal game yesterday to go with his two-assist game the night before. His first goal was off the opening faceoff; his fourth was an empty-netter. [USCHO, NCHC Stats, Miami RedHawks (with killer pic)]
- Praise for the madd penalty-killin’ skillz of Patrick Koudys in Penn State’s first-ever D-1 hockey game. [Lions247, @StackThePads (pic)]
- Finally, happy 48th birthday to Paul Cavallini.