Wednesday Caps Clips: Sputtering Scorers

Your savory breakfast links:

• News and notes from yesterday’s practice. [Caps video (Rinkside Update/Connolly, Trotz), NoVa Caps]
• Barry Trotz talks about returning from the bye week. That crummy, stupid bye week. [NBCSW]
• Taking a deeper dive into those post-bye week blues. [NoVa Caps]
• Stuck in a scoring slump, Jakub Vrana is in search of confidence - and ice time. [WaPo]
• Speaking of slumps, where’d T.J. Oshie go? [NoVa Caps]
• Meanwhile Andre Burakovsky has been through slumps and injuries and illness and healthy scratches; now he needs a short memory and a better second half. [WaPo]
• The second period has been a particularly bad frame for the Caps this season. [WashTimes]
• Prospect Connor Hobbs is quietly having a strong inaugural year with the Bears. [GNGH]
• Rankings of power. [OC Register, Puck Daddy]
• Denis Dupere didn’t have the most storied of careers, but the highlight for him was attending the All-Star Game as the first representative in Caps’ franchise history. [Toronto Sun]
• Former Cap Steve Konowalchuk is enjoying his second career behind an NHL bench. [Deseret News]
• Happy 57th birthday to Timo Blomqvist and happy 39th to Scott Hannan.
• Finally, sad details emerging about the death of former Bear Andrew Carroll, which may have been a suicide. [NBC Chicago, CH]