Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings from last night’s loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins from us, Vogs, WaPo ($), NHL, AP, FLM, Caps video (recap, Coach Carbery, Wilson, Strome, Roy), THN, and RMNB.
- A few leftovers from Wednesday’s win over the Blues. [Rink, RMNB]
- Re-live the night Alex Ovechkin hit 1,000 career points in 2017, which just so happened to be against the Penguins. [Rink]
- News and notes from the Washington Capitals morning skate yesterday. [Vogs, Coach Carbery media availability]
- Nobody expected Alex Ovechkin’s 900th career NHL goal to look the way it did. [WaPo]
- Jakob Chychrun recorded the lone assist on Ovi’s milestone goal, and it meant everything to him to be part of history. [THN]
- Speaking of Ovi’s 900th goal, Blues’ goalie Jordan Binnington did indeed try to hide the puck in his pants. [WaPo, Athletic, RMNB, S+S]
- Take a deep dive into the stats that power the greatest goal scorer in NHL history. [NHL]
- When most hockey fans think of the Capitals vs. Penguins, they often think of Ovechkin and Crosby. But for Russians? It’s Ovechkin and Malkin. [Athletic]
- Finally, happy 33rd birthday to Philippe Maillet and 30th birthday to Hunter Shepard!