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Your savory breakfast links:
- Rink reading from yesterday: Have we seen these Caps before? Halak'd no more, Key Matchups, Roundtable Part 1, GtK Ryan Strome (link), and the Caps PP vs the Isles PK (FanPost).
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night's loss from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Trotz, Holtby, Orpik, Brouwer, Laich, Capuano, Isles room, Ovechkin - Rocket Richard tribute), NHL.com, WaPo (gamer, blog, blog, photos), CSNW (gamer, blog, blog), WashTimes, PHT (and again), AP, Frankovic, RMNB (gamer, blog), DSP, Stars and Sticks and from the Isles' end of the ice, LHH, NYI Skinny, Newsday, NY Post
- Best and worst, Steinbog-style. [DC Sports Bog]
- Caps fans almost expected this, sez Loverro. [WashTimes]
- Welcome to Caps playoff hockey, Barry Trotz... [Puck Daddy]
- ... it can be rather two-dimensional. [DC Sports Bog]
- Updates from yesterday's morning skate:
- In general. [Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Caps Report, Trotz, Holtby, Ovechkin, Orpik, Fehr, IceCheetah, Rinkside Update/Green), Dump 'N Chase, DSP (photos)]
- Trying to keep it all in perspective. [WaPo]
- Looking to keep getting O from the D. [WaPo]
- ... and finally, everything Alex Prewitt wasn't able to jam into the rest of his stories. [WaPo]
- Getting ready for puck drop:
- How the Caps can win, fancystats edition. [WaPo]
- Which Isles will we get in the playoffs? [CBS NY, ESPN]
- The games are just part of the playoff fun. [Caps Outsider]
- Oh hai there goal post cam. [CSNW]
- Celebrities!
- Last of the Preview/Prediction Posts:
- Alex Ovechkin had a great year, but... [DC Sports Bog]
- Mike Green talks playoff hockey, Scott Niedermayer, and ink. Just don't ask him about his expiring contract, K? [ESPN]
- Finally, happy 51st birthday to Garry Galley.