Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s loss from us (with some GIFs here), Vogs, Monumental video (Oates, Grabovski, Neuvirth, Oleksy, Chimera), Capitals Voice calls (Chimera goal, Grabovski goal), NHL.com, WaPo, Peerless, DSP (blog, gamer), RMNB, Cover the Puck.
- Break a blade, get a blog post – that’s just a rule, Steve Oleksy. [Rink (GIF), Puck Daddy, RMNB]
- Your Capitals Minute for today. [Capitals Voice]
- News and notes from yesterday’s pregame hours:
- In general. [Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Rinkside Update (Wilson), Oates, Ovechkin, Laich), WaPo, CSNW]
- Vancity provided the usual Alex Ovechkin road show fare. [Vancouver Sun]
- Adam Oates sat down with John Walton for a few minutes. [Capitals Voice]
- He did not sit down with John Tortorella for a few minutes. [CSNW]
- Speaking of Oates, did you know that he scored the game-winner the last time the Caps left Vancouver with two points? [Dump ‘n Chase, WaPo, PHT]
- A look at who was Up and Down during the week that was. [Rink]
- You had me until “The Capitals’ system is one of possession.” [WaPo]
- Back to Oates for a moment, as we noted yesterday, he did “HNIC After Hours” (CBC video), and now the transcription can be all yours for the low price of a mouse-click. [RMNB]
- Some power ranking stuff. [TSN, B/R (Willis), C&B]
- Don’t vote for Ovi! [C&B]
- It’d be nice to see more Caps prospects doing well in Hershey, but… well, there is no but. [Patriot-News, and for more on the AHL’s goal-scoring Aussie, RMNB and SHoE]
- Future Bear (presumably) Riley Barber is tearing up the NCAA… [RMNB, with more on Barber and current Bear Connor Carrick at USoH]
- … and future Bear (presumably) Andre Burakovsky scored one suh-weet goal the other night… [Buzzing the Net]
- … while not future Bear (presumably) Evgeny Kuznetsov might be getting his game back on trak(tor). Bad joke. We’ll end Clips in a sec. [RMNB]
- Hey, where’d all the Caps blogs go? [DSP]
- Finally, happy 35th birthday to Chris Corrinet, happy 69th to Stan Gilbertson, and happy 54th to Hall of Famer Mike Gartner.