Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s win from us, Monumental video (Oates, Ovechkin, players), Vogs, NHL.com, National Post, WaPo (gamer, blog), CSNW (Joe B., AP gamer), Puck Daddy, Frankovic, Peerless, DSP, gofivehole, Illegal Curve and RMNB (and again and again).
- Previews of tonight’s Game 2 of back-to-backs in The ‘Peg from Vogs, NHL.com and Peerless, and be sure to check out our SB Nation pals over at Arctic Ice Hockey for more from the other side of tonight’s match-up.
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday’s pre-game goings-on: Mike Green was a game-time decision (spoiler alert: he played), Brooks Laich got bumped up to the second line, and more. [Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Oates, Ovechkin, Laich, Fehr, Ward), WaPo (and again)]
- Wave goodbye to Joey Crabb, Caps fans – he’s hitting the wire today. [WashTimes, WaPo]
- The hill to climb… it’s still big. [WashTimes]
- If you’re talkin’ trade, you’re talkin’ Mike Ribeiro. [CBS Sports, Grantland, CSNW]
- What to do on the blueline. [RLS]
- Steve Oleksy has a nickname and, remarkably, it’s not “Oleksy-y.” [RMNB]
- Are these Caps starting to look like the Caps of a decade ago? [RLS]
- Matt Hendricks‘ Kordic rating isn’t great. His what? (And that’s just the first of two Kordic references in these Clips.) [Backhand Shelf]
- The Lethbridge Hurricanes‘ logo looks familiar, but I can’t quite place it. [Buzzing The Net]
- The road ahead is a tough one for the Bears. [Patriot-News]
- Come to see Evgeny Kuznetsov hawking Cinnabon™, stay for the most magical milk commercial you never even imagined was possible. Got Teemu? [Steve Dangle]
- Finally, happy 36th birthday to both Tom Poti and Joel Kwiatkowski, and cheers to the 47th anniversary of the birth of the late John Kordic.