Tuesday Caps Clips: The Search for Starboard Stability

Your savory breakfast links:

• Last week started up and ended down. What does that mean for our Ups and Downs? Ups and downs (duh). [Rink, and also be sure to check in on RMNB's Snapshot of the week that was and some thoughts from CSNW]
• Yeah, so what's up with that whole "first-line right wing" thing? [NHL.com, WaPo]
  • That's all well and good, but who's helping them win? [Rink (and, believe it or not, we'll have more on this later this morning)]
  • Jay "FLINO" Beagle kicked it old school to crank up the o-ffense. [NHLPA]
• Pretty wretched special teams on Sunday, eh? [WaPo]
• Of all the guys listed as trade targets, the one the Caps should go after is Mike Green. Wait, what? [NHL.com, CSNW]
• Looking ahead to tomorrow night's Caps/Pens match-up. [CSNW (video), Post-Gazette]
• ♫ Then they saw the stats... now Mac's a believer... ♪ [ESPN]
• Hockey teams ranked according to power. [ESPN, THN, The Score, SB Nation]
• All coaches are dinosaurs and the NHL is Jurassic Park. [Stars and Sticks, Puck Daddy]
• You won't see a cuter kid in a Caps jersey today than this one, guaranteed. [Rink]
• Hulking blueliner Michal Cajkovsky skated up front for the Bears, who kept it rolling over the weekend... [Patriot-News]
• ... and will have to continue to do so without Liam O'Brien for a bit. [Patriot-News, Chocolate Hockey]
• Oh, we buried the lede on that one - Nate Schmidt has been cleared for contact.
• Prospect Steve Spinner is a USHL Player of the Week. [USHL]
• Finally,happy 57th birthday to Tim Coulis and happy 29th birthday to Wojtek Wolski.