Tuesday Caps Clips: Stars-Struck Streaks

Your savory breakfast links:

• In retrospect, it was obvious right from the opening lineups:

• Recaps of last night's streak-snapping home loss from us, Vogs (plus game notes), Monumental video (Trotz, Locker Room), NHL.com, AP, WaPo, CSNMA (gamer, rewind), Peerless, Frankovic, S&S, NoVa Caps, RMNB, and from the visitors' bench, Defending Big D and Dallas Morning News.
• About that first, um, goal. [CSNMA (and again)]
• The loss was bad, but even worse was seeing Braden Holtby pulled. [CSNMA]
• At least Swedish Heritage Night was fun. The Caps welcomed Swedish Ambassador Bjorn Lyrvall, hosted a “chalk talk” with Nicklas Backstrom, Marcus Johansson and Andre Burakovsky, and also this beautiful piece of tomfoolery. [Caps video, theScore, SB Nation]

• Welp. Ten things that have happened since the Caps last lost a game at home. [Caps Outsider]
• Notes and assorted whatnot from the Caps’ morning skate:
• In general. [Dump-n-Chase, NoVa Caps]
• Andre Burakovsky is on the mend and will be a “flight-time decision” to travel with the team on their upcoming roadie. [CSNMA, WaPo]
• “I loved how close the players are. You can stand right outside of the glass and you can see them up close. Nate Schmidt even gave me a thumbs up!” A Caps fan from Japan attended the pregame practice at Kettler. [NoVa Caps]
• It is college free-agent signing season, and perhaps the Caps have some plans.

• TL;DR - The Caps are a pretty complete team. [FanRag Sports]
• Finally, happy 57th birthday to Bryan Erickson and happy 54th to Mike Eagles.