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Your savory breakfast links:
- The Week That Was, Volume 16. [Peerless, AAtJ, ]
- Recaps and other assorted musings on yesterday’s overtime loss from us, Vogs (plus game notes), NHL, WaPo, NBCSW (three stars, four reasons), AP, Peerless, RMNB, NoVa Caps, and from the home side, philly.com, BSH, Flyerdelphia, and Sons of Penn.
- One Capital who had an outstanding weekend was their newest signing - forward William Cody of the Mid Atlantic Make-a-Wish Foundation. The 14-year old leukemia survivor practiced with the team on Saturday and was introduced in the starting lineup on Sunday. [BarDown, NHL.com, RMNB (and again)]
What a weekend for William Cody from @WishMidAtlantic! Signed a contract with the @Capitals on Friday. Practiced with the team on Saturday. And he was introduced right after @ovi8 before #CapsFlyers today. pic.twitter.com/UPxzM1OXvB
— Tarik El-Bashir⌨️ (@TarikNBCS) January 21, 2018
- Okay, what’s up with the Caps’ special teams? [NoVa Caps]
- Jay Beagle is winning more faceoffs than ever, but it’s not translating into much success elsewhere on the ice. [RMNB]
- Andre Burakovsky is getting his “battle” back. [WashTimes]
- Former Cap Scott Walker is headed to the Olympics as an assistant coach for Team Canada. [Luxora Leader]
- Hershey captain Garrett Mitchell got to meet his bobbleganger. [Caps Outsider]
- Finally, the Rink notes with sorrow the untimely passing of Jim Johansson, the assistant executive director of USA Hockey. [USA Hockey]