Your savory breakfast links:
- Game Six in Philly (yes) on Sunday has a start time – noon. [Caps Today]
- Recaps and other assorted musings on yesterday’s loss from us, Vogs (plus game notes), Monumental (Trotz, Holtby, Backstrom, Niskanen, photo gallery), NHL.com (and again), SI.com, WaPo, CSNMA (gamer, rewind), WashTimes, AP, Puck Daddy, PHT, Sportsnet, CBS DC, Frankovic, RMNB, Stars and Sticks and from the Flyers‘ end of the ice, CSNPhilly, Flyerdelphia, Broad Street Hockey.
- Obligatory choking dogs bullet. Growl. [WaPo, WashTimes, Courier-Post]
- Obligatory Michal Neuvirth bullet… [SI.com, RMNB, Sportsnet, CSNMA, USA Today, WaPo, Philly.com, ESPN]
- … but the Flyers know they have to be better. [WashTimes, Philly.com]
- Five crazy stats from this improbable game. [CBS Sports]
- Best and worst, Bog-style. [DC Sports Bog]
- “Why?” T.J. Oshie was asked. “Why not?” he replied. [WaPo, WashTimes, RMNB, BSH]
- Twenty things that are less frustrating than this Game Five. [Caps Outsider]
- Wrapping up the fallout from around teh Twitterz so we don’t have to. [NoVa Caps]
- Worried much? Nope, nope, nope and thanks for asking. [CSNMA, theScore]
- Why was this Caps playoff night different from other Caps playoff nights? Well ultimately it wasn’t, not really, but some fans were faced with the dilemma of observing Passover and/or observing their favorite team play Game Five. With cameo appearance by our own Becca H. [WaPo]
- Pregame notes:
- The search for killer instinct… [Rink]
- … and never tell us the odds. [Rink]
- Caps are working on their five-a-side game. [WashTimes]
- Just a couple of Philly journalists sitting around talking hockey. [BSH (video)]
- Flyermentum? [Philly.com]
- The Caps are the bigger team in this series. That’s bad for the Flyers, right? [Delaware Online]
- You guys, Brayden Schenn is really really sorry about that cross-check on Evgeny Kuznetsov. “Just don’t send Oshie after me”, he probably forgot to add. [WaPo]
- The Hershey Bears began their first-round best-of-five playoff series with a 6-4 loss to the (Panthers affiliate) Portland Pirates. Game Two is tonight at 7pm Eastern. [ABC27, Hershey Bears]
- The South Carolina Stingrays can clinch their first-round series tonight at home vs. the Kalamazoo Wings. They currently lead their series three games to one. [Live5News]
- In WHL action, Tim McGauley had three assists, including the secondary assist on the overtime gamewinner to defeat the Red Deer Rebels 4-3 and take a 1-0 series lead for the Eastern Conference championship. The teams meet again tonight. [WHL.ca]
- Finally, happy 58th birthday to Ryan Walter.
For those asking, our playoff allegiance is now with @JustinWilliams and the Caps. pic.twitter.com/2W3u01S4UB
— LA Kings (@LAKings) April 23, 2016