Monday Caps Clips: Special Teams Swoon

Your savory breakfast links:

• The Week That Was, Volume 2. [Peerless, NoVa Caps, AAtJ (with the Metro lowdown), Stars & Sticks (and again)]
• So, about those special teams [NoVa Caps]:
• The penalty kill units have allowed goals in four of five games... [WaPo, CSNMA, RMNB]
• ... at the same time the power play units have been surprisingly ineffective. [CSNMA]
• Reviewing faceoff metrics for this young season. [NoVa Caps]
• The Caps’ new-look third line is starting to gel and generate scoring chances - and goals. [WaPo]
• With the Western Canadian roadie starting on Tuesday, the Caps cellied Halloween on Sunday with costumes and karaoke. [RMNB (and again and again), NoVa Caps, CSNMA]
• Finally, the ECHL Idaho Steelheads are proudly celebrating their 20th anniversary, and take special note of their only two alumni currently playing in the NHL - one is a kid who got called up to the Dallas Stars just last Friday, and the other is 2007 Kelly Cup Champion Jay Beagle. [Idaho Statesman]