Wednesday Caps Clips

Your savory breakfast links:

• J.P. joins the JRR crew to talk about the Caps’ offseason and those jerseys, and to play a little game. [Rink, Caps]
• The Caps have made it official, announcing that their 2020-21 season will at least begin without fans (and pausing all season-ticket payments). [Rink]
• Is the Caps’ new coaching tandem of Peter Laviolette and Kevin McCarthy capable of bringing another Cup to DC? [NHL]
• That beginning sounds like it’s going to be around mid-January. [WaPo]
• Checking out the local rec-league hockey scene and whether it’s safe to join right now. [Caps Outsider]
• Caps’ prospect Connor McMichael talks about his clutch performance at last year’s World Juniors and his time with Team Canada in quarantine. [TSN]
• The Caps expected more from Richard Panik when they signed the forward last summer - but now the winger may be on the trade block. [Sport.sme.sk]
• Grading the 2019-20 season for T.J. Oshie. [S&S]
• An update on the impending divide between the NHL data available to teams and the data available to the public. [NoVa Caps]
• Doc Emrick declares Lars Eller to be an unsung hero for the Caps (although some of us have known he was the true hero all along). [NBCSW]