Your savory breakfast links:
- Take a look at the week ahead, and the usual totally-not-libelous commentary on the week’s upcoming opponents. [Rink]
- Recaps of last night’s whitewashing by the Wings from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Trotz, Ovechkin, Holtby, Alzner), NHL.com, CSNMA, AP, SovSport, The Score, KK, DSP, Peerless, RMNB, Caps Outsider, Detroit Free-Press, Detroit News, MLive (and again), and Winging It In Motown.
- Okay, so… this should have been a goal, yes? [Puck Daddy]
- The Caps didn’t just lose the game; they also lost Brooks Orpik, who left the game with a lower-body injury. [WaPo, The Score]
- Before the game, Alex Ovechkin was one goal away from taking over the goal lead among Russians. After the game… he remained one goal away. Alas. [PressboxDC]
- Sergei Fedorov Night at the Joe was still pretty special, even without a record-breaking goal. [Red Wings, CSNMA, Capitals Overtime, WXYZ.com]
- A closer look at the renaissance of the Caps. [NHLNumbers]
- News and notes from yesterday’s pregame skate:
- In general. [Dump ‘n Chase, Monumental video (Trotz, Ovechkin, Niskanen, Rinkside Update/Johansson)]
- After a decade in DC, Mike Green is starting fresh in Detroit – and was facing his old pals for the first time last night. [Monumental video, WaPo, CSNMA, RMNB]
- Why it’s okay that the Caps didn’t re-sign Green. [StarsandSticks]
- Ranking the worst draft-lottery losses in history, aka how the Caps ended up with the greatest goal-scorer in modern history. [ESPN (DGB)]
- He’s pretty good at putting up points in general, actually. [IBTimes]
- Ovechkin’s path to the NHL was paved, in part, by the man honored by the Wings last night: Sergei Fedorov. [NHL.com]
- Fedorov had some pretty amazing moments in his career – many of which came for, and against, the Caps. [THW]
- Experience the magic of a Hershey Bears game through the eyes of a first-time visitor. [Shnarped]
- The Metropolitan Division by the numbers. [THW]
- Relive the six DC sports moments- good and bad – that everyone should remember. Spoiler: the Caps one is actually in the “good” category. [Washingtonian]
- Catch Ovechkin talking hockey and soccer with some guys in jackets. Er, wait… that’s men in blazers. Whatever. [Monumental video]
- Finally, happy 61st birthday to Michel Bergeron, and happy 43rd to Steve Konowalchuk.