Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s loss from us (QuickCap, recap), Vogs (plus game notes), Monumental video (Trotz, Holtby, Backstrom, Niskanen, Niskanen’s goal), NHL.com, AP, WaPo (gamer), CSNW, Peerless, DSP (plus three stars), RMNB, Brooks Laichyear (with the fancystats), Die By The Blade.
- When Healthy may not be, after this hit. Ugh. Get well soon, Mike. [WaPo, RMNB, PHT CSNW]
- Matt Niskanen scored his first goal as a Cap with a nifty shot on the power play. [Capitals Voice]
- Apology accepted, coach. But it’s not you the fans need to hear from. [CSNW]
- News and notes from yesterday’s morning skate:
- In general. [Monumental video (Trotz, Two-Man Advantage, Rinkside Update/Chimera, Johansson), Dump’n’Chase]
- The team wants to make the Verizon Center a tough place for their opponents to play in. [WaPo]
- Down in Hershey, Philipp Grubauer made the Bears’ lone goal, scored by just-demoted Chris Brown , stand up with a one-nil shutout of the Worcester Sharks. [Patriot-News, LDN]
- Finally, happy 27th birthday to Nicklas Backstrom.