Thanksgiving Caps Clips: Three For All

Your save-your-appetite-for-later breakfast links:

• Give thanks! Alex Ovechkin brought a hat-trick feast for the fans yesterday, the 16th hatty and 92nd gamewinner and 199th power play goal in his career. The legend of Alexander the Gr8 grows once again. [NHL.com, CSNMA, RMNB, Puck Daddy]
• Goal calls! [@WaltonCaps (one, two, three)]
• Who’s the Blues’ daddy? [Bleedin’ Blue]
• He is the king of multi-goal games. Actually, make that the tsar. [CSNMA]
• The fans went nuts and Ovi’s Lady approves:

• Recaps and other assorted musings on the rest of the game from us, Vogs (plus game notes), Monumental video (Trotz, locker room), NHL.com, PHT, WaPo, CSNMA (gamer, rewind), AP, NoVa Caps, FiCP, Frankovic, RMNB, St. Louis Game Time and Post-Dispatch.
• In addition to an entirely entertaining contest between professional hockey teams, the fans were gifted with:
• First intermission Frozen Turkey Curling...

• ... and second intermission Turkey Mites-on-Ice [Monumental, CSNMA, Caps Outsider, USA Today, @mobaiiiley, @emgusk]

• Pregame, we learned that TJ Oshie skated briefly on his own, but per Coach Trotz his timeframe of week-to-week remains in place. [CSNMA]
• The Hershey Bears got into the holiday spirit by rewarding their fans with a 4-0 demolition of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and a turkey shoot... [@TheHersheyBears]

• ... while sporting these spiffy throwbacks.

• Happy 50th birthday to Robert Burakovsky, father of Andre, and an NHL’er in his own right with the Kings, back in the day. But that’s only half of the tale - I went to look for the obligatory “proud dad spends birthday eve in stands watching his son play” story and learned to my astonishment that “Burra” came out of retirement a couple of weeks ago to play for a division-3 team in Sweden and casually dropped a 3-6-9 bomb on Malmo. But it was more-or-less a one time thing and he’ll soon be back behind the bench, not sitting on it. [24Malmo.se (and again)]
• Finally, the Rink staff humbly gives thanks for our readers, contributors, all the folks whose work we link to throughout the year, and the great gift of community and our shared passion. Best wishes to you and yours, and enjoy the blessings of this holiday.