Sunday Caps Clips: Game Won

Your savory breakfast links:

• Friend-of-the-pod Corey Sznajder stopped by to break down Caps-Bruins and the rest of this year’s postseason matchups on the latest JRR. [Rink]
• Three things we were talking about yesterday when we were talking about the Caps. [Rink]
• Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s thrilling OT win from us, Vogs, Caps video (Laviolette, Dowd/Ovechkin, Anderson, recap), Bruins, NHL, AP, PHT, WaPo, NBCSW, WashTimes, NBCS Boston, Globe (and again), Herald, NoVa Caps, RMNB, and SCoC.
• Dowd called game.

• Despite the loss, the Bruins believe that they did enough good stuff in Game to be encouraged ahead of Game 2. [Globe]
• When Vitek Vanecek was forced to leave early in the first, Craig Anderson was called into action - and put in a heroic performance in relief. [WaPo, NBCSW (and again), ESPN]
• Speaking of Vanecek, he believes he’s ready to take on the role of playoff starter. Here’s hoping he heals up quick and is able to do so. [NBCSW]
• One last round of playoff predictions and miscellaneous thoughts ahead of the first round. [ESPN]
• Heartwarming gesture toward a little Caps fan who was hit by a puck... or the ultimate troll job by the ultimate troll? You decide. [NBCSBoston]
• While the team once again showed great resilience, the fact is that two of their players had put them in a tough spot even before the game started. [WaPo]
• About those two - Evgeny Kuznetsov remained on the COVID-19 list, while Ilya Samsonov has been removed from it but did not dress last night. [WaPo]
• Going into this series with his former team, Zdeno Chara is able to separate the personal from the business. [NBCS Boston]
• For the first time in two years, playoff hockey was back in the District. [WUSA9]
• Reviewing the regular season performance for the Caps’ defensemen and goalies. [NoVa Caps]
• Finally, happy 37th birthday to Tomas Fleischmann.