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Your savory breakfast links:
- Previews of today’s matinee matchup from Vogs (plus game notes), NHL, FOX Sports, and be sure to visit our SB Nation pals over at Broad Street Hockey for the other side of tonight’s game.
- Five storylines heading into this game. [NoVa Caps]
- One storyline - the forward lines. They got a pretty good shakeup in practice on Saturday. [WaPo, NoVa Caps (and again), RMNB]
- Jay Beagle wants to win every faceoff. But there’s a bit more to the art and science. [WaPo]
- The Hershey Bears fell 5-2 to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in the 2018 AHL Outdoor Classic, but it was a tremendous weekend nevertheless:
- Game recaps. [Chocolate Hockey, Caps Outsider, Patriot-News, Carlisle Sentinel]
- Gear! [Goalie Masks, Hersheypark Locker Room]
- Nathan Walker ’s sweater brought a cool $4,000 in the postgame jersey auction. [Caps Outsider]
- Photos from the Bears/Flyers Alumni Game. [Caps Outsider]
- A few leftovers from CapsHabs:
- Postgame notebook. [Dump-n-Chase]
- Numbers for the morning after. [RMNB]
- Poor confused Karl Alzner. [@NHLonNBCSports]
- Finally, happy 68th birthday to Ron Anderson, and today is the 131st anniversary of the birth of Georges Vezina. Get to know a bit of the history of the player behind the trophy here.