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Your savory breakfast links:
- After weeks of speculation and questions and interviews, it's official: the Caps have promoted assistant GM Brian MacLellan to GM and hired Barry Trotz as the new head coach. [Rink, Caps, Vogs, Ted's Take, WaPo, WashTimes (and more from McNally), NBC4 (Trotz, MacLellan), CSNW, WNST, NHL.com, CBSSports, AP, Reuters, AFP, Puck Daddy, SportsXchange, Dobber, SI, THN, PHT, RMNB, Patriot-News]
- Mike Vogel gets the first sit-down with the new bench boss... [Monumental video]
- ...and the new GM. [Monumental video]
- The CSN crew discusses the day's events. [Gormley, May, Beninati, Koken]
- Safe to say that former Caps' employee Shawn Simpson is not such a fan of MacLellan. Probably has nothing to do with the fact that BMac took his old job. Probably. [WaPo, PHT]
- MacLellan has a long road ahead of him as he takes over the reins of the Caps. [PHT]
- So that's taken care of. Next on the to-do list? Find a coach for Hershey. [Patriot-News]
- Report cards:
- Nate Schmidt. [CSNW]
- Connor Carrick. [GM on a Couch]
- Hope. (Huh? Just click.) [Peerless]
- Welcome to your new gig, Mr. MacLellan... now if we could direct your attention this way, there may be a few names here worth adding to your shopping list for the summer. [Dobber]
- Finally, happy 50th birthday to Chris Felix.