Your savory breakfast links:
- Exploring the mysteries, questions, and upside of what could be the Caps’ second line this season. [Rink]
- Recaps and other assorted musings of last night’s shootout loss in Charm City from Monumental video (Oates, Ovechkin, Brouwer, Wellman, Wilson), Vogs, NHL.com, AP, WaPo, CSNW (blog, gamer), CSNNE and Frankovic.
- Preparations for this year’s Baltimore Classic began first thing in the morning on (unsurprisingly) less-than-stellar ice. [Monumental video (Oates, Green, Backstrom, Brouwer, Holtby), Capitals Overtime pics (Ovechkin, pre-game soccer, morning skate, Beagle/Green/Holtby, Forsythe), CSNW]
- Watch highlights from the first period and the entire shootout [Caps, Bruins]
- Braden Holtby and Tuukka Rask enjoyed some choice digs after their work was done midway through the game. [Caps Instagram, RMNB]
- Crabs, shards of broken glass… yup, that sounds like Baltimore. (Kidding, kidding.) [Alex Ovetjkin, RMNB]
- Adam Oates says that John Erskine is “top four” on the Caps and is in no danger of losing his job. So… there’s that. [CSNW, PHT]
- Visa issues settled and hockey shorts selected, Mikhail Grabovski has finally arrived at Kettler and is ready to go. Huzzah! [Capitals Voice]
- Camp invitee Nathan Walker continues to make a name for himself… and not just because he has a cool accent. [NHL.com, Caps Outsider]
- Another one with a cool accent, Stanislav Galiev, is also looking to stand out from the crowd and make the leap from the ECHL. [Patriot-News]
- A few leftovers from Monday’s shootout win over Philly:
- Five thoughts on the win. [WaPo]
- Adam Oates explains his decision to put Joel “Wrecker” Rechlicz into the shootout… [CSNW]
- …and if you’re still not sure whether or not you dreamed it, here’s video and audio proof of Wrecker’s magic moment. [Sports-Kings.com, Capitals Voice, WaPo]
- Another round of “experts” ranking the “best” defensemen. [ESPN]
- Previewing the 2013-14 Caps, with a look at the pivots… [DSP]
- …and previewing the team from a fantasy hockey standpoint. [TSN]
- Why Andre Burakovsky should eventually replace Martin Erat… although considering the latter’s played exactly 9 regular season games for the Caps and the former, zero, that might be a bit premature. [THW]
- A number of players have already dropped the gloves this preseason, including a handful of Caps and Caps hopefuls – and for better or for worse, sometimes that’s what it takes to get noticed. [BHS]
- After signing with the organization in July, 2009 draftee and New Jersey native David Kolomatis is bringing his offensive skills to Chocolatetown. [Patriot-News]
- Interesting stuff from Ted Leonsis on the Caps, the media, and building an active blogosphere – aka the reason why I’m typing this here and you’re all reading it. [WaPo]
- Alex Ovechkin on the cover of a newspaper in Canada… and somehow they managed to refrain from adding in horns and a pitchfork, how nice. [Alex Ovetjkin]
- Follow Karl Alzner‘s journey from BC to DC, which clocked in at just under 34 hours. So y’know, just a nice, relaxing, cross-continent drive. [WaPo]
- Finally, happy 47th birthday to Tom Chorske.