Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps of the overtime win from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Holtby, Beagle, Ward, Brouwer, Carlson), NHL.com, AP, WaPo (gamer, blog), CSNW (gamer, blog), Peerless, Frankovic, DSP (plus three stars), RMNB and from the fishy end of the ice, Fear the Fin, San Jose Mercury Chronicle and San Francisco Chronicle.
- “We played together and against each other, and it was a great honor to know this guy as a person and play against him and score some goals.” Alex Ovechkin paid tribute to his friend, opponent, quintessential Caps killer and Team Russia teammate Evgeni Nabokov as he was honored upon his retirement. [San Jose Mercury-News]
- Professor Troy Brouwer provided a demonstration of the Forces of Hockey and Haymakers. [RMNB]
- #blockingzebras. [Eye on Hockey]
- Attaboy, Beags. [PHT, @REarleWhite]
- “We played together and against each other, and it was a great honor to know this guy as a person and play against him and score some goals.” Alex Ovechkin paid tribute to his friend, opponent, quintessential Caps killer and Team Russia teammate Evgeni Nabokov as he was honored upon his retirement. [San Jose Mercury-News]
- News and notes from yesterday’s pregame skate:
- In general. [Dump ‘n Chase, Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Trotz, Rinkside Update/Backstrom)]
- Rumor has it that this is a very important roadie. [PHT]
- Andre Burakovsky is getting a sweater and hopefully some swagger back. [WaPo]
- Dmitry Orlov thinks he might be back on game ice in a couple of weeks. [RMNB]
- Oh hai there, third line scoring drought. [WaPo]
- In which Braden Holtby enters the Vezina Trophy discussion. [Sports World News]
- The week in fancystats. [Stars and Sticks]
- Ultimately, the Buffalo Sabres had the biggest pile of chips available for Evander Kane. What might the Caps have needed to ante up? [CSNW]
- Trading post – as the March 2 trade deadline approaches. First up: Right Wings. [CSNW]
- Finally, happy 35th birthday to Rico Fata and happy 47th to John Purves.
- One more, from InGoal magazine writer and keen observer of goalie-things Greg Balloch:
Not a single save in the end-of-period montage, but they made sure to get two different angles of this: pic.twitter.com/mcf590zoVn
— Greg Balloch (@GregBalloch) February 12, 2015