Your savory breakfast links:
- Previews of tonight’s rendezvous in La Belle Province from Vogs, NHL.com, RMNB and Peerless, and be sure to check out our SB Nation pals over at Eyes On The Prize for more from the other side of tonight’s match-up.
- Alex Ovechkin is the NHL’s First Star of the Week? That news is so two weeks ago. And this week. [Monumental (video), WaPo, WashTimes, CSNW, CBC]
- Other news and notes from a well-deserved day off: Michal Neuvirth is comfortable back in the saddle, Joel Ward is a little less comfortable (but supposedly okey-dokey), and Jack Hillen is a papa again. [WashTimes, WaPo, CSNW]
- The Caps are banged up, but confident. [WaPo]
- Tonight will be a homecoming for Mike Ribeiro. [CSNW]
- From one AO who captained the Caps to the AO who currently does: You da man. [WashTimes]
- More predictable-but-welcome “Ovi’s back” paeans. [Puck Daddy, NHL.com, The Hockey News, WaPo, DC Sports Bog, Toronto Sun, Globe and Mail, HNIC Radio (audio), DCEx, Homer McFanboy, Backhand Shelf, ESPN ($), gofivehole]
- It’s the Swedes, I tells ya. [CSNW]
- If you’re planning a parade, best have your umbrella ready. [DCEx]
- A few leftovers from the Lightning game… [DC Sports Bog (and again), DCEx]
- … and a look back on the week that wasthe week that was. [Peerless]
- If you’re GMGM, would you rather have snagged Ales Hemsky than Martin Erat? [Edmonton Journal]
- From the “Why The Hell Not?” file, imagining a Caps Cafe guaranteed to give you a coronary… like the Caps themselves. [Caps Outsider]
- Finally, happy 49th birthday to Rick Tocchet.