Your savory breakfast links:
- Previews of the Caps’ visit to Edmonton from Vogs, NHL.com and Peerless, and be sure to check out our SB Nation pals over at Copper & Blue for the other side of tonight’s matchup.
- Boyd Gordon: Superhero. Hell yeah. [Copper & Blue]
- Your Capitals Minute for today. [Capitals Voice]
- News and notes from a practice day up in Edmonton [Monumental video (Oates, Ovechkin, Holtby, Chimera, Rinkside Update/Johansson), Caps Overtime (Ovi signing autographs, Caps on ice)]
- A few leftovers from Tuesday’s shootout win:
- In general. [WaPo, Capitals Hill, WNST]
- Braden Holtby was pretty vocal after Tuesday’s game – and certainly had a right to be, after facing down 47 shots through 65 minutes. [CSNW]
- The Great 8 picked up his 8th goal of the season on a breakaway that seemed to twist Ondrej Pavelec up in knots… [Caps Overtime]
- …and followed it up with his 9th on a play that has become pretty familiar to Caps fans, and yet is always worth a second look. [Rink]
- And because it wasn’t all sunshine and roses Tuesday night, breaking down a play that was far too casual and mattered for all the wrong reasons. [Rink, Cover The Puck]
- Winnipeg fans? Booing? Winnipeg Jets fans?? Unpossible. [DC Sports Bog]
- Special teams, Holtby’s bounceback, Green’s horrid night and other thoughts on the past week in Capitals hockey. [Rink]
- You might think it would get old reading about how good Alex Ovechkin has been and continues to be… but y’know, it really doesn’t. [WaPo, ESPN, Edmonton Sun, Edmonton Journal, CBC (video)]
- Questions abound:
- Can the Caps justify keeping Tom Wilson now that the clock has officially started on his contract? [CSNW]
- Who do you prefer, Mike Ribeiro or Mikhail Grabovski? [CSNW]
- If the Caps do trade Michal Neuvirth to Edmonton, who should they target as a return? [Stars and Sticks]
- A recent outbreak of illness among the Hershey Bears has head coach Mike Haviland searching for the host monkey. [Patriot-News]
- Ranking the prospects of each NHL team from a fantasy hockey perspective. [Dobber]
- A look at Karl Alzner, aka the Caps’ best shutdown defenseman. And that’s not just because the bar is pretty low. [Bleacher Report (Vollman)]
- Great moments in goalie goal-scoring history. Awesome, now those Ron Hextall nightmares will come back. [Grantland]
- Acknowledging the under-reported fact that Evgeni Malkin is a dirty player sort of makes it okay that Alex Ovechkin pops up on this list, too. Almost. [SI.com]
- Verizon Center has some flashy new decorations on it… and some new pissed-off neighbors. [DC Sports Bog]
- Slow road trip? [Caps Outsider]
- Finally, remember those crazy (but awesome) pictures of the players with puppies? The video is even better. [Monumental video]