Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s loss from us (with quotes, and look for Clyde’s Shots later this morning), Monumental video (Oates, players), Vogs, NHL.com, CSNW (Joe B., gamer, blog), WaPo (gamer, blog), WashTimes (gamer, blog), DCEx (gamer, blog), Frankovic, Peerless, DSP (and again), Sick Unbelievable, OFB, Puckhead and RMNB (and again).
- Nifty move, Alex Ovechkin. [SB Nation]
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday’s morning skate and pre-game goings-on:
- Troy Brouwer‘s hot start to the season has helped… but a “bonus”? Isn’t it what he’s paid to do? [WashTimes]
- Talkin’ shootouts, and Braden Holtby gives his top-five Caps shooters. [CSNW]
- Where does right wing Alex Ovechkin rank among the League’s best (fantasy) left wingers? [Dobber]
- Tomas Kundratek is coming along nicely. [WaPo]
- Wojtek Wolski waits for Lady Luck. [DCEx]
- What if the Caps’ window isn’t closing… but rather opening? Mind blown, right? [Sick, Unbelievable]
- DECIBEL METERS! Err, decibel meters. (Sorry, got caught up in decibel meter madness.) [Capitals Outsider]
- Speaking of noise (but the good kind), heeeeere’s Horn Guy! (Alternate bullet text: Me so Horn-guy.) [NBC4]
- Notes from up the road in Hershey… [Patriot-News]
- … where the Bears are loaning Sergey Kostenko to Ontario (ECHL) so he can get more playing time. [Patriot-News]
- Fantastic FanPost responding to that Zone Entries white paper we linked to yesterday. [Japers’ Rink FanPost]
- We’re hockey fans and we don’t care if you like our sport or not. [SportsonEarth.com]
- Finally, happy 38th birthday to Patrick Boileau, happy 42nd to Jason Marshall, happy 48th to Joe Reekie, and happy 60th to Al Hangsleben.