Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings from last night’s shootout loss to the Minnesota Wild from us, Vogs, WaPo ($), AP, NHL, FLM, Caps video (recap, Coach Carbery, Ovechkin, Dubois, Wilson), THN, NoVa Caps, and RMNB.
- A few notes from yesterday’s morning skate. [Vogs, THN]
- Jakob Chychrun has settled into the Washington Capitals lineup quite nicely, and hopefully he’ll be in DC long-term. [THN]
- A few Caps prospects are headed to the IIHF World Juniors semifinals after Czechia and the USA won yesterday. [NHL, USA Hockey, TSN, RMNB]
- Prospect Eriks Mateiko and Team Latvia might not be advancing at World Juniors, but he did score twice yesterday and is currently tied for the goal-scoring lead in the tournament. [RMNB]
- Marc-Andre Fleury played his last game at Capital One Arena last night, and Charlie Lindgren had all kinds of praise to share about the netminder that helped inspire him. [THN]
- Fleury and Alex Ovechkin also reflected on the history of their 20-year rivalry. [THN]
- Ilya Protas had quite the game for the Windsor Spitfires yesterday, recording his first OHL hat trick. [Spitfires, RMNB]
- Check in on all of Washington’s prospects playing hockey at the college level this season. [NoVa Caps]
- Finally, happy 56th birthday to Steve Poapst and 51st birthday to Stefan Ustorf!