Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings from last night’s playoff (!) victory from us, Monumental video (Oates, Holtby, Oleksy, Johansson, Chimera, Ward, Fehr, Tortorella, Rangers players), Vogs, Capitals Voice, NHL.com, AP, WaPo (and again), WashTimes, DCEx, CSNW (gamer, blog, blog, blog, Joe B.), NYT, Puck Daddy, PHT, SI, canoe.ca, Peerless, Frankovic, RMNB, Puckhead, DSP, RtR, Caps by Puck (pics!) and for the Rangers, Blueshirt Banter.
- The night in Alex Ovechkin:
- His second-period powerplay goal made him the Caps’ all-time franchise leader in playoff goals. [Alex Ovetjkin (with must-see video), RMNB]
- Pre-game questions, raised. [Yahoo! Sports]
- Pre-game questions answered, postgame. [Yahoo! Sports]
- He’s having fun and looking confident. But d’ya really think Marc Staal is trying to avoid Alex the Great? [CBC]
- Whatever happens, don’t ask him to listen to country music. [Alex Ovetjkin]
- Oh me oh my, Oleksy. [CSNW, WashTimes, PHT, RMNB, NYT]
- Jason Chimera, birthday boy and certified Ranger-killer. [WashTimes, @walsha]
- Hosannas for Holtby. [WashTimes (and previously), CSNW (video), RMNB, WaPo]
- The night in Alex Ovechkin:
- From the Rangers’ end of the ice:
- Torts on a roll. [NYDN]
- That Oleksy pass is causin’ all sorts of trouble… [Newsday]
- … as is the disappearing puck off John Moore‘s stick. [ESPN]
- It’s playoffs time again in CapsLand, which is basically the best thing ever, until it isn’t, again, but that’s okay. Because playoffs. [Homer McFanboy]
- Point. [Mr. Irrelevant]
- Counter point. [Ibid.]
- Turning points. [AP]
- And hey, thanks. [Ted’s Take]
- Coach Oates dials it down to have himself be heard. [DCEx]
- A winning culture – the Caps haz it at long last. [OFB]
- Celebrities in the hizzay: Eric Fehr‘s dad. But where was Meemaw Holtby? [DC Sports Bog]
- You donated, they won. You donate more… see where we’re coming from? [Beard-A-Thon]
- Finally, happy birthday wishes go out to Rod Langway as he turns 56, Jeff Halpern as he turns 37, and Robbie Moore as he turns 58.