Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s loss from us (recap), Vogs (plus game notes), Monumental video (Trotz, Holtby, Ovechkin, Backstrom, Orpik), NHL.com, AP, WaPo (gamer, blog), CSNW, Peerless, DSP (plus three stars), RMNB, Brooks Laichyear (with the fancystats), Talk the Red, Pension Plan Puppets.
- So Alex Ovechkin blew up his former Dynamo teammate Leo Komarov and knocked him out of the game… [PHT]
- … but at least Ovi stopped by the Leaf trainer’s room for a hug with Leo… [RMNB]
- … and the League has indicated they will review the incident. Good times. [SunMedia]
- The loser of the Tom Wilson – Korbinian Holzer fight was linesman Steve Miller. Wait, what? [WaPo, Deadspin, CSNW, Caps Outsider]
- A game to forget. If only we could, chief. [CSNW]
- Maybe it was all Pat Quinn’s fault. Seriously. [Sportsnet]
- News and notes from yesterday’s morning skate:
- In general. [Monumental video (Trotz, Ovechkin, Laich, Two-Man Advantage, Rinkside Update/Alzner), Dump’n’Chase]
- Oh hai there Steve Oleksy, nice to see you back up top for a game (or more). Get well soon, Mike Green . [WaPo]
- Evgeny Kuznetsov and Matt Niskanen are working to take advantage of their extra ice time. [CSNW]
- Down a level, a three-goals-against third period doomed the Hershey Bears and they fell to the Syracuse Crunch 4-1. [Patriot-News]