Your savory breakfast links:
- Catch up on all of the Clips you might have missed over the weekend right here.
- Your Capitals Minute for today. [Capitals Voice]
- The Week That Was, Volume 14 [Peerless, RMNB, GM on a Couch]
- Searching for balance with the reconfigured top-two forward lines. [WaPo]
- Dmitry Orlov is playing like he plans to stick around for awhile. [CSNW]
- Peerless and the cousins went on quite the bender to usher out 2013… [Rink (One, Two, Three, Four)]
- … and whipped up a few resolutions with which to greet 2014. [Rink]
- Some leftovers from Saturday’s loss:
- Five thoughts. [WaPo]
- A less-than-triumphant return to nets for Braden Holtby. [CSNW]
- The game was practically historic – for all the wrong reasons. [NBC4]
- Jersey foul or test drive? You decide. [Puck Daddy]
- Jack Jablonski got to chill with Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, John Carlson, Brooks Laich and prob’ly the rest of the team before the game, so that was nice. [RMNB]
- In international ice hockey news:
- Christian Djoos unleashed the fury with the game-tying goal to force overtime in the gold medal match… [RMNB]
- … but Småkronorna ultimately fell to the Finns, who were crowned the 2014 World Junior Champions.
- Sad Andre Burakovsky is sad. [RMNB, and again (pics)]
- Thomas DiPauli returned from his Team USA duties and suited up (along with fellow Caps prospect Austin Wuthrich) for his first game back – an open-air game against Boston College at Frozen Fenway. [RMNB]
- Alex Ovechkin sat down with Jill Sorensen to talk about Team Russia and the upcoming Olympics… [CSNW (video)]
- … while Russian president Vladimir Putin played a little shinny in Sochi, on a team that also featured Pavel Bure, Slava Fetisov, Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu, and Belorussian president Alexander Lukashenko. Team Strong Horse prevailed 12-3. [The Province, Moscow Times]
- Down on the farm:
- Connor Carrick ran into some weather and travel delays on his return from Malmo… [SHoE]
- … and finally reported for duty in Hershey. Unfortunately, his gear did not. So he was watching from the press box as the Bears defeated a strong Manchester Monarchs team. [Patriot-News, SHoE]
- The 2013 Hershey Bears year in pictures. [SHoE]
- Misty water color memories – the deal to end the latest Lockout To End All Lockouts was ratified one year ago today. (And while I was looking this up, I came across this link. Hmm.)
- Finally, happy 38th birthday to Richard Zednik and happy 59th to Alex Forsythe.