Tuesday Caps Clips: Bye, Bye, Baby

Your savory breakfast links:

• Stats and facts about how the Caps fared before and after last year’s bye week. [Peerless]
• Reflections on the first half and looking ahead to the second with the Post staff. [WaPo]
• What has been the biggest surprise about the first half for the Caps? The NBC Sports Washington crew discuss. [NBCSW]
• A detailed look at the Caps’ first 45 games. [Frankovic]
• It was a rough offseason, but maybe - just maybe - GM Brian MacLellan knew what he was doing after all. [NoVa Caps]
• Red-hot Dane Lars Eller headed into the bye week on a high note. [FiCP]
• Acquired on the cheap over the summer, Devante Smith-Pelly has proven to be the team’s biggest offseason acquisition. [NoVa Caps]
• Rankings of power. [USA Today, NBC Sports, NBCSW, OC Register]
• The Caps are proving every known way of statistical thinking wrong. Attaboys. [RMNB]
• The week that was for the Metropolitan Division, where the points don’t matter and no one ever loses. [Sporting News, Pensburgh]
• Taking in a Caps game on the road in Raleigh. [NoVa Caps]
• Hersheypark Arena recently played host to a hockey-crazed couple in love with the sport - and each other. N’aww. [Chocolate Hockey]
• Finally, need a little hockey fix that also makes you feel old? Twelve years ago today, this happened: