Your savory breakfast links:
- The Caps went 1-1-1 last week, so you might expect a bit of a rough edition of Ups and Downs. You’d be right. [Rink]
- Previews of tonight’s visit from Vancity from Vogs, NHL.com, Peerless and Brooks Laichyear (with a look at the whole week), and check out our SB Nation pals over at Nucks Misconduct for the other side of tonight’s match-up.
- The Canucks did the tourist thing yesterday. [Vancouver Sun]
- Updates from yesterday’s practice out at Kettler:
- Everything is cyclical, and the Caps are already bringing back last year’s trend of gagging up quick-strike goals after scoring one themselves. [WaPo]
- Thought on how to score more goals: take more shots. [RMNB]
- How worried should you be about a middling November, a Mehvember, if you will. [Stars and Sticks]
- Related: are the Caps better than their mediocre record? [CSNW]
- You can’t spell “so complacent” without C-a-p-s. [DSP]
- More thoughts on where things stand 23 games in. [RtR]
- Power rankings (and similar list-y things). [ESPN, The Score, WaPo, SB Nation]
- Brooks Orpik speaks. [RMNB]
- The hirsute Karl Alzner hands out Movember awards. [Monumental (video)]
- Meanwhile, Alzner and pal John Carlson hit the road and hilarity (or an approximation of it) ensues. [Caps Outsider]
- For the very reasonable price of $6,500 per month, Alex Ovechkin can be your landlord (which is great because you know he won’t come back for checks). Recycled joke zing! [WaPo]
- Congrats to Caps prospect Madison Bowey, who has been selected to Canada’s world junior selection camp roster. [Hockey Canada, THN]
- The Caps Canine Calendars are available now, so that means another round of Caps-with-dogs coverage. [Capitals, FTW, RMNB]
- Happy 34th birthday, Joel Ward.
- Lastly, a reality check…
Guess I’ll leave this here and file it under “It’s getting late, early” #Caps pic.twitter.com/pyc3iu0soj
— Japers’ Rink (@JapersRink) December 1, 2014