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Your savory breakfast of champions links:
- T.J. Oshie and Evgeny Kuznetsov are repping the Caps for the NHL’s annual preseason media tour. [NoVa Caps]
#NHLMediaTour in Chicago with @TJOshie77 & @Kuzya92 pic.twitter.com/1tdlzF5w6h
— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) September 7, 2018
- The target on their team’s back feels just fine. [NHL]
- Kuzy had the quote of the day as he made the media rounds (scroll down). [SI]
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Tom Wilson has returned to Washington ready to work on his
real estate portfoliooffense. [NBCSW] - Goalies doing goalie things. [FiCP]
- The 2018 Prospect Showcase gets underway today with Washington facing Nashville at 1:00 Eastern. The game will be broadcast on Caps Radio 24/7. [Caps Today, NoVa Caps]
Rinkside Update | Day 1 of the 2018 Prospect Showcase underway in Estero, Florida as we catch up with @shane_gersich9 after his Stanley Cup winning summer #ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/vE4wCtAfca
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) September 7, 2018
- Lordy lordy, Team Germany Olympic silver medallist head coach Marco Sturm turns 40. And happy 28th birthday to Stanley Cup champion Michal Kempny!
- Finally: “But for one week in June, it all seemed worth it. For one summer, all the pain of all those losses seemed a narrative necessity, the bitter conditions required for that cathartic burst of sweet, thoughtless idiot joy. We leapt in fountains. We scaled lampposts. We fell off our barstools and knelt on our living room floors and wept. And the Capitals’ willingness to celebrate publicly, to make their own stupid happiness accessible to us, gave our own exultation a communal weight—a sense that the irrational one-sided emotions fans project onto our favorite sports boys were, in some impersonal but genuine way, understood and reciprocated.” [Deadspin]