Your savory breakfast links:
- Tab One – Japers’ Rink. Tab Two – Twitter. Tab Three – CapGeek. It’s Free Agent Frenzyday!
- Er, but if you’re a Caps fan, the key phrase might be “managed expectations…” [WaPo]
- … which dovetails neatly with the reduced salary cap this season… [USA Today]
- … but no. Free agency is a time to dream. Bring on the shopping lists! [Dump-n-Chase, Red Line Station, Caps Outsider]
- Matt Hendricks has almost certainly earned a raise, and nearly as certainly will not be earning that raise with the Caps. [BrooksLaichYear]
- It’s probably best that no Caps names appear on either of these lists – revisiting the 2010 and 2011 free agent signings (as applied to fantasy hockey) [Dobber Hockey 2010, 2011]
- So, about those long contracts – were they terrible? [Grantland, with a response from Uncle Ted]
- Oh hai there Alex Ovechkin. The League’s reigning best right wing and second best left wing spent the day Building Kazakhstan’s Hockey Capital with a trip to Astana to assist at the dedication of a new national sports club, where K-stan can train all of its national athletes. [HC Barys, Sports.kz, Instagram (pic)]
- Finally, happy 35th birthday to Chris Hajt, happy 37th to Dwayne Zinger, and happy 52nd to Todd Bidner.