Wednesday Caps Clips

Your savory breakfast of champions links:

• In the 2017-18 season, career years for Caps players were uncommonly common. [Rink]
• As has become commonly common, Alex Ovechkin is totes gonna obliterate some records this upcoming season. Dino Ciccarelli, you are on the clock. [Caps Outsider]
• This year’s big training camp battle will be for fourth-line centerman. Jay Beagle left some pretty big skates to fill. [NBCSW]
• The specter of Tom Wilson continues to loom large over Brooklyn. [Eyes on Isles]
• Apparently the Caps have allowed their rights to Swiss defenseman Damien Riat expire, and he will be patrolling EHC Biel’s blueline this season. [sport.ch]
• Just for fun, here’s a video from 2014 with Alex Ovechkin’s parents showing us around the Ovimuseum at his country home in Russia... [YouTube via Pavel Lysenkov]
• ... and a video from November 2017 when Ovi’s pals T-Killah and Amiran Sardarov came to DC for a visit. There’s a nice li’l tour around the Kettler facilities, and then a fair amount of time at Stately Ovechkin Manor, which seemed oddly empty. It’s all in Russian, so there’s maybe a language warning... [YouTube via Sport-Business]
• ... and one for Evgeny Kuznetsov on the occasion of his Day with the Cup. This is from Traktor TV in March 2014, as Kuzya packed his bags for America. [YouTube]
• Finally, happy 49th birthday to James Black, happy 64th to Roland Stoltz, and many happy returns to Brendan Morrison, who turns 43 today.