Thursday Caps Clips

Your savory breakfast of champions links:

• Lars Eller, Viking warrior and steadfast centerman, triumphantly returned home to Danmark with the spoils of victory... [TV2Lorry.dk, NHL, NoVa Caps, FiCP, RMNB]

• ... and a silver bowl filled with delicious buttermilk soup. Koldskål!

• “Many ice hockey talents have a dream of winning the most prestigious trophy in the world. For 99.99 percent, it remains only a dream. You realized your dream. This party is not only for Rødovre, but for all sports Denmark,” said Danish Ice Hockey Union chief Henrik Bach Nielsen. [BT.dk for the local angle, and again for the Eller family angle]
• Congrats to Rink reader/commenter Madelle, who got some quality time with Lord Stanley. [Fanpost]
• The Caps are the champs, and become the standard against which the Atlantic Division teams can be measured. [The Athletic]
• These scoring chances charts tho. [THW]
• This could be a breakout season for Dmitry Orlov, who surely has more points in his stick. [NBCSW]
• And what about Christian Djoos? [FiCP]
• T.J. Oshie got paid and then got busy being a great hockey player - especially when it counted the most. [Stars & Sticks]
• A snippet about the making-of the Caps’ championship DVD - “We couldn’t get the rights to Alex Ovechkin in the fountain. We couldn’t find who shot it,” he said. [ESPN]
• Fashionblogging Part One - a history of the Caps’ alternate sweaters. [NoVa Caps]
• Fashionblogging Part Two - it’s come to this.

• Finally, happy 66th birthday to Harvey Bennett, and happy 56th to Jim Johnson.