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Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on yesterday’s win from Vogs, NHL, NBCSW, AP, and NoVa Caps.
- The team may have finished strong, but Tom Wilson took a step backwards with a blindside hit that has once again landed him in hot water. [NHL, WaPo, NBCSW, WashTimes, ESPN, NoVa Caps, RMNB, NBC Sports, Yahoo! Canada, SLGT]
Washington’s Tom Wilson has been offered an in-person hearing for an Illegal Check to the Head on St. Louis’ Oskar Sundqvist. Date and time TBD.
— NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) October 1, 2018
- Previews and storylines to look for League-wide heading into this season. [NHL, CP, AP]
- If the Caps are going to go back-to-back, they’ll go against the predictions of NHL.com’s panel of “experts” who have no respect for the defending champs. [NHL]
- Moving past the celebrations of the summer and focusing on the season ahead will be key to the Caps’ repeat hopes. [NHL]
- Lars Eller’s first ugly beautiful goal of the postseason checks in as #4 on the list of the top 10 playoff moments. [FiCP]
- Predicting the workload for Pheonix Copley as he prepares to take over as Braden Holtby’s backup. [Puck Prose]
- Pictures from Hershey’s training camp. [Caps Outsider]
- The preseason didn’t end quite as well for the Bears as it did for the Caps, with Hershey dropping back-to-back games to (ugh) the Penguins. [Caps Outsider, NoVa Caps, FiCP]
- Projecting the opening-night roster for the Bears. [NoVa Caps]
- A day after signing his entry-level deal with the team, Caps’ prospect Riley Sutter had a big night in his WHL squad’s win. [NoVa Caps]