Wednesday Caps Clips: Shaw Shanked

Your savory breakfast links:

• Recaps and other assorted musings on last night's preseason loss in Montreal. [Monumental video (Reirden, locker room), EOTP, HI/O, Gazette, NoVa Caps]
  • The Habs got rid of a guy who spent his spare time cheering up sick kids and brought in this charmer. Good plan. [NoVa Caps, RMNB, The Score, PHT]
  • Aside from some unnecessary histrionics, last night's game also featured the return of Karl Alzner after offseason surgery - his first test on the road to recovery. [WaPo, CSNMA]
• A few leftovers from Monday's game. [Dump 'n Chase]
  • Lars Eller got into his first action in a Caps jersey, and picked up a point on the lone Washington goal of the game. [WaPo]
• With camp getting a wee bit crowded (and about to get even more so), the first round of cuts is looming. [CSNMA]
• After taking an errant shoulder to the head on Monday and leaving the game early, Tom Wilson was held out of practice yesterday. [CSNMA]
• In better injury news, Nate Schmidt was back on the ice after a leg injury kept him out on Monday. [CSNMA]
• There aren't many spots open on the Caps' opening-night roster, but Riley Barber has his eyes on one of them. [WashTimes]
• The IIHF gets more optimistic about the NHL's participation in the Olympics going forward... [AP]
• ...while the NHL says "not so fast". [Puck Daddy]
• Doesn't really matter what either one of those groups says: Alex Ovechkin is going, regardless. [Sportsnet]
• Congrats and welcome aboard to Zack Fisch, who got the call from the ECHL to be the new play-by-play voice of the Hershey Bears. [Caps Outsider]
• Finally, happy 29th birthday to Dustin Penner and happy 63rd birthday to Doug Gibson.