Tuesday Caps Clips

Your savory breakfast links:

• A look back at the season that was for...
  • Karl Alzner. [CSNW]
  • The goalies. [WaPo, NBC4]
  • The bottom-six forwards. [WaPo]
• By the by, if you're wondering when our Rink Wraps will start rollin', wonder no more - Alzner, Karl drops on Monday.
• Adam Oates defends his methods of trying to make the team better... [CSNW]
• ... as he twists in the wind... [PHT]
• ... while his captain says he's "a pleasure to work with." (Not exactly the juicy "coach-killer" red meat for which the vultures are clamoring.) [RMNB]
• And speaking of numero ocho, "Could one argue that he is the worst player in the NHL?" "Is Ovechkin the worst defender in any two-way sport? I don't know." [WaPo]
• Oh, and "[i]f Alex Ovechkin ever thought of hiking off to the KHL down the road, it [sic] could land with the Moscow Dynamo, for whom he’s an adviser." Because journalism. [Edmonton Journal]
• The 2013-14 disappointment stretches all the way from D.C. to Hershey... [Patriot-News, LDN, CSNW, SHoE]
• ... and might even reach as far as Erie, Pennsylvania, where Andre Burakovsky and the Otters are now one game away from being swept by the Guelph Storm after Monday's 7-1 drubbing. Game Four is tonight at 7:30 Eastern. [CBC]
• Big season-ending wrap-up podcast on Talk The Red tonight starting at 7:30, featuring a handful of local Caps writers (including yours truly), so tune in.
• Finally, happy 69th birthday to Bob Paradise, happy 53rd to Bob Mason, and raise a glass for the late Peter Zezel, who would have been 49 today.