Wednesday Caps Clips

Your savory breakfast links:

• Joel Ward continues to kick some serious international booty, adding a three-point performance in Canada's 3-2 win over Norway yesterday to his impressive resume. [CSNW, AP]
• Another impressive performer in Minsk? Mikhail Grabovski, who is just continuing to remind us all that he's a really good player who is not re-signed yet. [CSNW]
• More report cards:
  • Poor, broken Brooks Laich and his poor, broken groin. [Rink, RMNB]
  • John Carlson. [GM on a Couch]
  • Joel Ward. [Peerless]
  • Steve Oleksy. [CSNW]
• There are a bevy of job openings available around the League... [Grantland (DGB)]
• ...including here in DC, where the GM search slogs on, four weeks after George McPhee was cut loose. [WaPo]
• Could Wayne Gretzky - and Doug MacLean, dear god - be headed to DC to fill some of those vacancies for the Caps? Yikes. [CBS Sports, Puck Daddy, Yahoo!]
• Mike Vogel's end-of-season chat with poor, broken Brooks Laich and his poor, broken... well, just with Laich. [Rinkside Update]
• Which of the city's four major sports teams stands the best chance of snapping DC's title drought? ...odd, "E) none of the above" doesn't seem to be an option. [WaPo]
• Finally, happy 65th birthday to Bill "-82" Mikkelson and happy 35th to Graham Mink.