Your savory breakfast links:
- Searching for the ideal (other) winger for the Caps’ top line and numerous other questions answered in this week’s Mailbag. Keep those questions coming – you ask, we answer! [Rink]
- One former Caps’ assistant GM weighs in on the promotion of the most recent man to hold that title, Brian MacLellan. [ESPN ($)]
- He probably won’t be jetting off to Russia any time soon to party with the captain, but Barry Trotz is looking to build a relationship with Alex Ovechkin – and all of his new players. [CSNW]
- He’s also still in need of a few assistants behind the bench, with one potential candidate in his former assistant (and Panthers‘ recently-deposed interim head coach) Peter Horachek. [CSNW]
- More and more people are turning their backs on the validity of plus-minus; but for those who have yet to see the light, point them right this way. [Arctic Ice Hockey]
- Two years of “scary” ice conditions and one pane of plexiglass with mayhem on its mind, and that’s it for the Baltimore Classic. Check ya later, Charm City. [WaPo, CSNW, PHT]
- The latest random thing taking the internet by storm is NHL logos redesigned with Simpsons characters, and at last there is a Caps’ one. Because offseason, y’all. [Next Impulse Sports]