Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s loss from Vogs, NHL.com, CSNW, Mark’s Musings, and from Shuffalo, Die by the Blade.
- “Perhaps some of them would impress versus the Sabres. Play their way onto the roster. Surprise some folks with a last-minute surge. But as Trotz stomached the shellacking and players filed to the team bus, it turned out the exact opposite would suffice, too.” [WaPo]
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Previews of tonight’s fling with Philly from Vogs.
- End-of-Training-Camp notes:
- Eric Fehr cracks the top line, probably. This news is so big, some of the #fancystats crew are even thinking about watching a game. [WaPo, RMNB, Capitals Voice and previously, Rink]
- As Fehr slides up, Marcus Johansson slides over to wing and down the lines. [NBC4, WaPo]
- Alex Ovechkin could see his power play time trimmed. Wait, what? [Dump ‘n’ Chase, theScore, PHT]
- On the rise: Andre Burakovsky and Evgeny Kuznetsov. [PHT]
- The first rule of Preseason Fight Club is that it’s pretty much expected. Drop ’em, boys. [WaPo]
- Getting-Ready-For-The-Season notes:
- Well, everyone sez the new NHL15 is a terrible game, anyway… [EA Sports]
- … except for the Caps’ kiddies who now offer on-demand virtual beatdowns. [RMNB]
- The number-one Burning Question for the Caps this year is… go on, guess. [NHL.com]
- This year’s Hot Seat is reserved for Matt Niskanen? Alrighty then. [NHL.com]
- In a season of change, Ovi remains the constant. [USA Today]
- After finishing out of the playoffs last year, here’s how the Caps could make it back in. [NHL.com]
- Rookies to watch. [USA Today]
- Crystal ballin’ Jack Hillen . [Peerless]
- Some real talk from Nicklas Backstrom. [Hockeyramblings]
- Hershey notes:
- Ron Hextall‘s kid christened the PPL Center by scoring first on the Bears last night, but Troy Mann’s squad mustered a 3-1 preseason victory in the Phantoms’ beautiful new barn. [Patriot-News]
- Stan Galiev scored a goal. And by “scored a goal” we mean “bent time and space.” [@Kundrc84, Station Nation, Puck Daddy]
- Pheonix Copley is practically a Grand-Child of the Korn, and his stock is on the rise at Chocolatetown. [Patriot-News]
- Fun-With-Google-Translate notes:
- “When [Jakub] Vrana picked up there were few who hung out with and after a couple of squiggly drawings he served kedjepolaren Jacob Micflikier until 2-0. Approximately eleven minutes later slapped Vrána also collected 4-0 after clean show the number of county inhabitants.” Linkoping is happy to get their sniper back for the season. [Folkbladet (via GoogleTrans)]
- “When [Jakub] Vrana picked up there were few who hung out with and after a couple of squiggly drawings he served kedjepolaren Jacob Micflikier until 2-0. Approximately eleven minutes later slapped Vrána also collected 4-0 after clean show the number of county inhabitants.” Linkoping is happy to get their sniper back for the season. [Folkbladet (via GoogleTrans)]
- Finally, George McPhee is rested and ready to be back in the game. Or take calls from the Gr8, whichever. [ESPN, RMNB]