Thursday Caps Clips: New Decade, Same Quest

Your savory breakfast links:

• Recaps and other assorted musings on Tuesday’s loss to the Islanders from us, Vogs (and again), Caps video (Reirden, locker room, recap), NHL, AP, WaPo, NBCSW (and again), WashTimes, Newsday (and again), NoVa Caps, RMNB (and again), Caps Outsider, StarsandSticks, and Lighthouse Hockey.
• 41 games in, the Caps remain in the top spot - but are very much a self-professed work in progress. [NBCSW, WashTimes]
• Reflections on the Radko Gudas-Matt Niskanen trade, half a season in. [NoVa Caps]
• Counting down the top-five left wingers in the NHL over the last 10 years. [THW]
• Ranking the power of teams over the course of the 2010s. [The Score]
• The year in numbers. [NoVa Caps]
• The decade in numbers. [NHL, RMNB]
• So what may lie ahead for hockey in the 2020s? [RMNB]
• Part 1 of this week’s mailbag examines whether the Caps are good enough to win another Stanley Cup. [NBCSW]
• John Carlson talks about his second selection to the All-Star Game. [Caps video]
• Vote Oshie! [NHL]
• Congratulations to the Dowds, who welcomed baby Louie to the world on New Year’s Eve. [Caps]
• Happy 51st birthday to Rick Tabaracci.
• Finally, one more look back at the last decade, courtesy of the team, with the best moments of the 2010s: