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Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night's win from us, Vogs (plus game notes), Monumental video (Trotz, Ovechkin, Orpik, Chimera, Holtby, Canes' room), NHL.com, AP, WaPo (gamer, blog), CSNMA, Peerless, DSP, NVC, Stars & Sticks (plus three stars), RMNB, and from the visitor's bench, All About The Jersey and NJ.com.
- Here's your 2015-2016 home game Opening Video. [Monumental]
- Oh, that goal! [CSNMA, and relive it in Skycam]
- Oh, that other goal! [RMNB]
- The new guys did just fine this night. [CSNMA]
- For Dmitry Orlov, it was a start 18 months in the making. [NHL.com]
- RIP, Honest Abe. [Caps Outsider]
- With an incredible bull rush from the defensive zone, Alex Ovechkin dangled through, muscled past and posterized defenseman John Moore, then used the most delicate of scoring touches to lift the puck top shelf to climb another rung on the Ladder of Legendary. But truly, there are no words. You'll need to see this one for yourself. [NHL.com, CSNMA, Puck Daddy, SBNation.com, CBS Sports, theScore, CBC, RDS, FanSided, RMNB (and again), Caps Outsider, SI]
- Y'know, his teammates have seen this before. And they still can't quite believe it. [WaPo, CSNMA, WashTimes]
- Related:
Alex Ovechkin scores his 1st goal of 2015-16 + the 476th of his career. Puts him past Bernie Nicholls into sole possession of 50th all-time
— StatsCentre (@StatsCentre) October 11, 2015
- Y'know, his teammates have seen this before. And they still can't quite believe it. [WaPo, CSNMA, WashTimes]
- So the Caps' Red Carpet event was festive and well-attended/well-received by the fans:
- Video [Monumental, CSNMA (and again)]
- Best/Worst dressed. [RMNB]
- Smile for the camera! [Caps Outsider, and more photos from before and after the game]
- Alex Prewitt left us a nice little goodbye present with his last piece for the Post, an in-depth look at two days in July that shaped the Caps' off-season, and perhaps their future. [WaPo]
- Jill Sorensen has questions, a properly besuited Evgeny Kuznetsov has answers. [CSNMA]
- Is this the year? [THW]
- The Hershey Bears opened their season with a dominant 5-1 win over host Springfield Falcons. Riley Barber scored two goals, and Chris Bourque notched his 500th and 501st AHL points with a goal and an assist. [Patriot-News, The AHL]
- Related:
With his first-period assist tonight, @TheHersheyBears' Chris Bourque becomes the 89th player in @TheAHL history with 500 career points
— AHL Communications (@AHLPR) October 10, 2015 - Finally, happy 41st birthday to Jason Arnott, and happy 49th to Shawn Chambers.
- One more: "You got your Chik-Fil-A promotion in my SkyCam!" "No, you got your SkyCam in my Chik-Fil-A promotion!" Houston, we have a problem. [Caps Outsider]