Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps of last night’s win over New Jersey from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Trotz, Holtby, Ovechkin, Green, Backstrom), NHL.com, AP, WaPo (gamer, blog), CSNW, Peerless, Frankovic, DSP (plus three stars), BrooksLaichyear, Stars and Sticks, RMNB and In Lou We Trust, nj.com.
- Ho hum, Alex Ovechkin scored his fifteenth tally of the season. As Nicklas Backstrom described it: “That was a typical grinder goal. Lucky rebound goal.” Or maybe the greatest pure goal-scorer of his generation scored a purely great goal. See for yourself, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again.
- Helpful Jay Beagle helpfully helps Backstrom with a helpful helper. [RMNB]
- Here’s John Walton calling a big-gun hat trick. [Capitals Voice (Green, Backstrom, Ovechkin)]
- With a hat trick last week and a two goal game last night, meet “Saturday Night Nicky”. [Aftonbladet]
- News and notes from yesterday’s pregame skate:
- In general. [Dump ‘n Chase, Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Trotz, Rinkside Update/Latta)]
- A wiser, more detailed Ovi is upping the parts of his game that don’t involve goal scoring. [WaPo]
- And besides, with all this secondary scoring, who really needs Ovi or Backy or Greenie goals anyway? [WaPo]
- There’s a new points leader in Capstown. They call him Mean Lars. [Caps Outsider]
- Brooks Laich is happy to be healthy and contributing again. [WaPo]
- It’s not clear how the subject came up, but Matt Niskanen has opinions regarding Dan Bylsma‘s dismissal from the Penguins organ-i-zation. Brooks Orpik has opinions too, but is mostly keeping them to himself. [Sportsnet, TribLive]
- Almost, but not quite. The Bears fell in overtime to the Springfield Falcons, with a final of 2-1. [Patriot-News]
- Finally, happy 36th birthday to Petr Sykora.