Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s shootout win from Vogs, Monumental video (Trotz, Burakovsky, Fehr, Niskanen, Peters, and check out all the highlights here), CSNW (and again), AP, BSH, CSN Philly, Philly.com]
- Andre Burakovsky: Really. Good. At. Hockey. [CSNW]
- Justin Peters stood tall for the Caps in the win, but the biggest save of the night was probably this diving stop in overtime by… Marcus Johansson?? [Monumental video]
- A shootout! How novel! [CSNW]
- If it’s a Caps-Flyers game, there must be fighting, this time courtesy of Liam O’Brien and Zac Rinaldo . To be fair, it was hardly the first time someone in a #87 jersey beat the snot out of the Flyers. [CSNW, Hockeyfights]
- Uh, way to break our arena, Nicklas Grossmann. Really nice. [BSH]
- Burakovsky has gone from a fringe candidate for a roster spot to a guy who is practically a shoo-in for opening night. [Sporting News, Aftonbladet, Expressen]
- If he does make the squad, Burakovsky will be a rookie to keep an eye on… but in the meantime, potential future teammate Evgeny Kuznetsov is probably worth a look, too. [USA Today]
- Meanwhile, Stanislav Galiev has the entire hockey world all a-twitter over his highlight-reel spin-o-rama goal in Hershey’s preseason opener. [Caps OT, Stucc’s Glove and Blogger, Patriot-News (and again), CSNW, Puck Daddy, CBS Sports, Frozen Futures, Puck Drunk Love,
- Predicting goal totals, finding a place for Johansson and more in this week’s Japers’ Rink Mailbag. [Rink]
- News and notes from yesterday’s game-day skate:
- Coach and players talk about the penultimate preseason game. [Monumental video (Trotz, Fehr, Green, Rinkside Update/Backstrom)]
- John Walton caught up with Barry Trotz prior to the game to talk about camp so far, the loss in Buffalo and the ongoing fight for roster spots. [Capitals Voice]
- Previews and predictions:
- Check out some best-case scenarios for all of the Eastern Conference teams… besides all of the other teams losing and the Caps winning. [SI.com]
- Previewing the 2014-15 season for Brooks Laich. [THW]
- Will the changes on and off the ice help the Capitals? [NV Daily]
- The additions of Matt Niskanen, Brooks Orpik and Todd Reirden will be the key to reviving the Caps’ defense. [SI.com]
- Camp updates:
- The roster continues to get whittled down, as Connor Carrick, Casey Wellman and Garrett Mitchell were sent to Hershey. [WaPo, Patriot-News]
- The offseason may have been full of changes but the Caps are trying to keep one thing constant: the productive power play of the past two seasons. [WaPo]
- Great news on the injury front, as Mike Green, Michael Latta and Nate Schmidt were back on the ice yesterday. [WaPo, CSNW]
- Check out what could possibly be the Caps’ opening-night roster. [CSNW]
- Alex Ovechkin finds himself at a crossroads. And needs to buy in and play better defense and yada yada yada. [Too Many Men on the Site]
- Fresh off his first Caps training camp, Jakub Vrana is back in Sweden and picked up two points in his first SHL game. [RMNB]
- The regular season gets underway in less than a week, and for the first time in a few years, it’s back to normal for the NHL. [Canada.com]
- Someone took the time to turn NHL jerseys into soccer kits. For some reason. [Icethetics]
- Finally, happy 42nd birthday to Michael Nylander.