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Your savory breakfast links:
- Predicting the "Trotz Effect" on the Caps' top stars, predicting who could skate alongside them, predicting the Winter Classic venue... all that and more in this week's Japers' Rink Mailbag. [Rink]
- The Caps have been busy shoring up the crease this summer, adding a couple of goalies in the last month and bringing in veteran coach Mitch Korn. [Dump 'n Chase]
- Meanwhile bench boss Barry Trotz and his assistants are putting together a "team-first" program for his new squad. [CSNW]
- A look at some storylines heading into Caps' training camp, which is just a little over a month away. [THW]
- Could Alex Ovechkin eventually end up in the Hockey Hall of Fame? Could, should and will if clear heads prevail. [Bleacher Report]
- The Caps' potent power play has had a couple of strong quarterbacks in John Carlson and Mike Green; with Matt Niskanen in the mix now, too, who should take the lead? [NBC4]
- Next on the list of impact players for 2014-15: Michael Latta, who checks in at #22. [CSNW]
- We've all been sucked into the Wikipedia rabbit hole a time or two, and Down Goes Brown dives in headfirst to dig up factoids (or "factoids") about all 30 teams. [Grantland]