Monday Caps Clips: Not-So-Super-Sunday

Your savory breakfast links:

• Recaps of a loss from us, Vogs (plus game notes), Monumental video (Trotz, Orpik, Alzner, Blues Room, Hitchcock), NHL.com, AP, WaPo (gamer, blog), CSNW (gamer, blog), Peerless, DSP (plus three stars), Stars and Sticks, RMNB and from the Blue end of the ice, St. Louis Game Time, St. Louis Post Dispatch.
  
  • Congrats to Caps Captain and all-around awesome hockey player Alex Ovechkin, who notched his 30th goal in a season for the tenth straight season to kick-off a career, which puts him in truly elite company. [PHT, NHL.com (video), Eye on Hockey]
• The Week That Was, Volume Seventeen. [Peerless, RMNB, ILWT (with the Metro lowdown)]
• Cam Schilling was returned to Hershey… [Caps Today]
  • … where he registered a plus-one rating in the Bears’ 2-0 win over the Norfolk Admirals… [AHL]
  • … while attired in the splendorous Groundhog Day jersey (and kudos to Punxsutawney Philipp Grubauer , who registered his 4th shutout on the season.) [Patriot-News, Chocolate Hockey (don’t-miss photos)]
• Re55pect. [@helenenothelen]
• Today in “Trade Mike Green.” Dear god, no. Just no. And also hell no. [TSN, Sun Media]
• Prospect updates:
  • Zachary Sanford scored the gamewinner for Boston College as the Eagles defeated the Providence Friars 3-2 in their pre-Beanpot tuneup… [SBNation College Hockey]
  • … and the Beanpot tournament, always scheduled for the first Monday in February, has been pushed back to Tuesday on account of snow. [USCHO]
    
  • Thomas DiPauli and his Notre Dame teammate Vinnie Hinostroza are two very fortunate men. [@Hinostroza12]
  • Travis Boyd had a couple of big assists as the Minny Gophers came back against their Big Ten rivals Wisconsin. [Strib]
  • Shane Gersich is now alone in 12th place in scoring in the USHL with 22-15-37, +9 in 33 games played. He had a nifty OT goal to defeat the, er, Capitols (of the Madison variety) 4-3. [omaha.com]
  • Madison Bowey notched a goal and the shootout gamewinner for Kelowna. He passed a couple of milestones on January 14 vs Tri-City, grabbing his 100th WHL assist and 150th WHL point with a power play assist on romance novel protagonist Rockets rookie Chance Braid‘s first career goal. [Kelowna Now]
  • Defenseman Patrick Koudys is captain of a surprising Penn State hockey team, currently tied with Michgan State for second place in the Big Ten . As a stay-at-home defenseman, he has six assists and a +9 rating. Not much scoring, so here he is modeling the Nittany Lions’ new third jersey and a pretty groovy scar. [@wildrusk]
• Congrats are in order for Calle Johansson, who becomes the 99th man to be inducted into the Swedish Hockey Hall of Fame. Heja sverige! [Aftonbladet]
• Finally, happy 38th birthday to Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre, and happy 55th to Lee Norwood.