Monday Caps Clips: Atop the Metro

Your savory breakfast links:

• The Week That Was, Volume 11. [Peerless, RMNB, AAtJ]
• Ten thoughts as the Caps reclaim the Metro crown. [Frankovic]
• Point - Sure, the Caps are back up on top of the Metro. Maybe that’s not the best place for them to be. [RMNB]
• Counterpoint - But it sure feels grand. [RMNB]
• Alex Ovechkin has his Nicklas Backstrom, and now Evgeny Kuznetsov has his... Jakub Vrana. [WaPo]
• Is Alex Ovechkin Clutch™? [PHT]
• “They’re not the heavyweight hopefuls they’ve been the past several seasons. But Ovechkin’s still scoring, Holtby’s still stopping, and the Caps are still winning.” The Caps earn an A- for their work so far this season, up to the Christmas break. [THN]
• Andre Burakovsky is back from his injury but not really back to pre-injury form yet. [NBCSW]
• A few leftovers from #CapsDucks:
• Postgame notebook. [Dump-n-Chase]
• Numbers for the morning after. [RMNB]
• A comeback with character. [NoVa Caps]
• Reminder - we have the extreme privilege of watching a legendary career unfold:

• Celebrating the Ho-Ho-Holidays, Capitals-style:
• Here’s a roundup of everything the Caps did at their final pre-Xmas home game. [@Capitals]
• But mainly it was this beauty:

• Capitals Tunes, reviewed! [DCPD]
• The Caps’ wives and girlfriends got together for some holiday home decorating. [NoVa Caps]
• Finally, happy 66th birthday to Bernie Wolfe, happy 72nd to Jean Pronovost, and happy 45th to Jeff Nelson.