Your savory breakfast links:
- Mike Green has a full, healthy offseason under his belt for the first time in years and is finally ready to get back to being awesome and dangerous. Sláinte, Mike. [NHL.com]
- Evaluating the Caps’ first week of training camp. [CSNW]
- While many of the NHL’s goalies might be dreading the new goalie pad restrictions, Braden Holtby is all for it and has great reasons behind his thinking. [CSNW, PHT]
- After being traded three times in the last year, Casey Wellman is settling in to the Caps organization and looking forward to settling down. [Patriot-News]
- So it sounds like Adam Oates might really like this Tom Wilson kid. Hmm. [WaPo, Express, CSNW]
- Connor Carrick is also a fan, and has some good memories of playing alongside Wilson in the playoffs. Ah, l’amour. [RMNB]
- Speaking of Wilson, his great finish on Nathan Walker’s even more awesome pass against Boston Tuesday night did the impossible – it actually cracked Sportscenter’s Top 10. [Caps Outsider]
- A few more leftovers from Tuesday’s Baltimore Hockey Classic:
- Some quick hits from Charm City. [KK]
- Alex Ovechkin has had to dodge plenty of dangers in his career – big hits, high sticks, crazy reporters, and now, a vengeful piece of arena glass. [Bog]
- Yeah, about that. This whole “let’s play hockey in Baltimore” thing needs some increased safety measures if they’re going to try for a third one. [DSP]
- Video of the wayward crab that found its way onto the ice in Charm City. Hey, wonder if it plays defense. [Bog]
- Joe Beninati weighs in with his thoughts on the Baltimore Hockey Classic and Adam Oates’s coaching style. [WNST (audio)]
- New Cap Mikhail Grabovski is one of the Eastern conference players who could – hopefully – have a breakout season this year… [Sportsnet]
- …which is why he’s also on a list of some of the top potential UFAs next summer. Because it’s never too soon for that. [Sportsnet]
- A few of the Caps are sounding somewhat confident about the team’s chances this year, which really is great. Just don’t let it move from confidence to complacency. [CBS DC]
- A response to ESPN’s ranking of top goaltenders with a “real” ranking… which somehow has Holtby even lower than before, and trailing Tim Thomas and Cam Ward. [Raw Charge]
- Counting down to opening night by the elements. In other words, the only way ‘Jay Beagle‘ and ‘magnesium’ get used in the same blog post. [Peerless]
- Grabovski is finally here and there’s photographic proof. Also included, proof that Olie Kolzig secretly longed to play forward all these years. [Bog]
- It’s a new year and the New Year for hockey fans – which means it’s time for some New Year’s resolutions. Shooooooot! [Grantland]
- Previewing the Metropolitan Division as only our pals over at Lighthouse Hockey can. [LHHockey]
- If you’re headed to the Caps Convention Saturday, be sure to get there by 10 for a “major announcement”. I swear, if it’s just that there’s a new bobblehead… [Caps, PHT]
- And the first player in the NHL to get slapped with two minutes for tucking in the jersey is… wait for it… former Cap Alexander Semin. [@ice_chip]
- Finally, happy 52nd birthday to Don Beaupre and happy [belated… stupid lying Internets!] 56th to Craig Laughlin, who will captain one of the teams in tonight’s alumni game – good luck to all!