Wednesday Caps Clips: Vane-best

Your savory breakfast links:

• Congrats to Caps’ netminder Vitek Vanecek, who was named the NHL’s rookie of the month for January! [Rink, Caps, video (Vanecek one-on-one), Caps Outsider, RMNB, WashTimes]
• Celebrate!

• With rotating lineups, injuries, and the growing pains of learning a new system, the Caps owe a lot to Vanecek for helping keep them afloat. [SI]
• Vanecek is walking in the footsteps of another young Caps’ netminder who got off to a hot - some might say sssssmokin’ - start (and hopefully has a better future in net). [THW]
• Checking in with coach and Osh after yesterday’s practice. [Caps video (Laviolette, Oshie)]
• Evaluating the Caps, ten games into the 2020-21 season. [Caps365, NBCSW]
• Checking in on the team’s prospect pool, where a couple of the kids are starting to heat up. [NoVa Caps]
• A few leftovers from Monday night’s disappointing loss to the Bruins. [Caps, RMNB, S&S, Stanley Cup of Chowder]
• The Bruins have their version of why Trent Frederic’s fight “mattered” Monday night... it’s wrong, but you can read about it anyway. [NBCSports Boston]
• A random NBA fan in New Jersey got a very random, very tall package delivered to him by mistake. What’s Slovak for “oopsies”? [WUSA9, NBCSW, The Score, ESPN]
• Finally, happy 30th birthday to Chris Brown, happy 53rd to Frantisek Kucera, and happy 33rd to Peter LeBlanc.