Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s shootout loss from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Trotz, Johansson, Holtby, Wilson, highlights), NHL.com, AP, WaPo, CSNMA, Peerless, DSP, RMNB, StarsandSticks, NoVa Caps, Friends in Cold Places, Jackets, Dispatch, and The Cannon.
- The Jackets’ backup’s backup, Anton Forsberg, was called into action in overtime when Curtis McElhinney fell awkwardly – and in shutting down the Caps, earned his first NHL win. [Dispatch, The Score]
- Tom Wilson is starting to prove that he’s more than just a pair of boxing gloves. [NoVa Caps]
- News and notes from yesterday’s pregame skate:
- In general: [Dump ‘n Chase, Monumental video (Trotz, Rinkside Update/Oshie)]
- The big news out of the Caps’ room was the injury update on Jay Beagle, who had surgery on his hand and will be out at least six weeks. [Caps, WaPo, CSNMA, TSS]
- With Beagle out and newly-recalled blueliner Aaron Ness in, the lineup looked a bit different than it has in recent weeks. [WaPo, WashTimes]
- Congrats to Alex Ovechkin on being named captain of the Metropolitan team – and probably the only deserving captain – at this year’s All-Star Game. [Caps, Monumental video, NHL.com, WaPo, WashTimes, THW, NoVa Caps, CSNMA]
- Take the Caps’ pending free agents and Ted Leonsis‘s checkbook, and spend that money. (Hypothetically, of course.) [CSNMA]
- A look back at 2015 for the Caps. [StarsandSticks]
- Taking a page from their parent club’s recent theatrics, the Hershey Bears overcame a four-goal deficit to beat Binghamton 6-5 in overtime last night. [Patriot-News]
- Finally, happy 47th birthday to Steve Poapst, and happy 42nd to Stefan Ustorf.