Your savory breakfast links:
- Brooks Orpik and Dmitry Orlov are not perhaps the ideal defensive pairing… but they are better than you’d think. [Rink]
- It’s a week or three before the playoff seedings shake out, but in the meantime, who ya got in the first round vs. the Caps? [Rink]
- Pace yourselves. [Rink]
- Power rankings roundup. The Hockey News put on their grumpy pants this week. [Rink]
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s win from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Trotz, Holtby, Oshie, Kuznetsov, Winnik), NHL.com, AP, WaPo, CSNMA (gamer, rewind), DSP, Frankovic, Peerless, S&S, NoVa Caps, FiCP and RMNB, and from the visitors’ bench, The Tennessean (and again) and On The Forecheck.
- Daniel Winnik is bringing a scoring touch to the fourth line. [WaPo, theScore]
- Kuzya Kuzya Kuzya! Three primary assists, each beautiful and/or breathtaking in its own way:
- “Maybe there will come a day when the rest of the NHL catches on to what Evgeny Kuznetsov is thinking and seeing on the ice.” [CSNMA]
- Unstoppable stuff. [CBS Eye on Hockey]
- Playmaker. [theScore]
- Look at those passes. Just look at them! [FTW, RMNB (and again), PHT]
- Or maybe it was just dumb luck. K. [RMNB]
- LockerMania! Craig Laughlin marked 25 great years with the Caps:
- How he found his way to the broadcast booth and then never left. [WaPo]
- Players and fellow broadcasters gave him their video thoughts. [CSNMA]
- He’s interviewed by his daughter Courtney… [CSNMA]
- … and toasted by his mom. [CSNMA]
- Salute from CapsNation. [NVC, Caps Outsider]
- Checking in with Baltimore radio. [CBS Radio
- The coach and the player seem to have different opinions on the timetable, but regardless, John Carlson seems headed for a return from injured reserve. [WaPo]
- In every playoff series there can be a surprise player or two whose game ramps up and is hard to gameplan against. For the Caps, that man just might be Jason Chimera . [ESPN]
- Bracketology, NHL playoffs-style. [Anaheim Calling]
- Beauty is as beauty does and Alex Ovechkin is the total package, on and off the ice. [THW]
- T. J. Oshie ‘s daughter Lyla just celebrated her second birthday after recovering from serious health problems and will soon have a baby sister – and dad is not quite sure how that will work out. [CSNMA]
- So, um, here’s why you shouldn’t bet on the Caps to win out. [Sportsnet]
- Finally:
Rod kept biscuits outside the basket, I snuck some biscuits in the basket & Locker ate the biscuits in the basket 😉 pic.twitter.com/YGK9QEhvxF
— Peter Bondra (@PeterBondra12) March 19, 2016