Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s loss from us (with quotes), Vogs, Monumental video (Oates, Holtby, Alzner, Johansson, Vigneault, Rangers)], NHL.com, WaPo, Peerless, Frankovic, CSNW, RMNB, DSP (gamer, blog), F Street Faithful, RtR, and for the view from Gotham, Blueshirt Banter.
- The same but different. But really pretty much the same. [WaPo, CSNW]
- Perhaps we will hear from Brendan Shanahan on Troy Brouwer on Derek Stepan… [Puck Daddy, PHT, RMNB]
- … and Brouwer himself had a few thoughts as well. [WaPo]
- Mama said there’ll be days like this. There’ll be days like this, Mama said… [RMNB]
- …but there’s no sugarcoating a bad loss. [WashTimes]
- Five for flailing. [HockeyFights]
- Your Capitals Moment for today. [Capitals Voice]
- It’s official – Alex Ovechkin isn’t the problem. So there’s that. [ESPN]
- “This may come down to what role the Caps envision for Tom Wilson: power forward in the making, or bruiser with talent.” [THN]
- The Bears are off on a 3,600-mile roadie to Newfoundland for a two-game set with the JohnnyJets. [Patriot-News]
- Check out Philipp Grubauer‘s new bucket. It’s weagle-tastic! [Patriot-News (photo gallery)]
- Congrats to Riley Barber and Miami University Men’s Hockey, named NCHC Offensive Player of the Week and ranked #1 in both national polls, respectively. [NCHC, and again]
- Condolences to Andre Burakovsky, who is totally pwning the OHL rookie scoring race, but he’s not eligible to win the rookie scoring title because rules. [Go Erie]
- Evgeny Kuznetsov returned to the ice in Chelyabinsk, as Traktor absorbed a 7-0 beatdown by SKA. [RMNB]
- Hockey cards are the best when they feature a background with the team that the player just got traded to, and other musings from a Kingsblogger digging through the archives of What Might Have Been. [The Royal Half]
- We’ll always have the Stanley Can. [DC Sports Bog]
- Finally, happy 29th birthday to Sami Lepisto.