Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings from yesterday’s OT loss to the Colorado Avalanche from us, Vogs, AP, FLM, NHL, Avalanche, Caps video (recap, Coach Carbery, Ovechkin, Chychrun, Sourdif, McMichael), THN, RMNB, and Mile High Hockey.
- With his power play goal yesterday, Alex Ovechkin has now scored 1,000 combined regular season and playoff goals in his NHL career. [NHL, Athletic ($), SI, FLM, THN, RMNB]
- With the playoffs approaching, how are the Metro Division standings shaping up? [ESPN]
- Happy 50th birthday to Nolan Baumgartner, 68th birthday to Bengt-Åke Gustafsson, 33rd birthday to Dmitrij Jaškin, and 38th birthday to Michal Neuvirth!
Finally, our hearts are with the family and friends of Jessi Pierce, a beloved NHL reporter who covered the Minnesota Wild, and her three young children after they died in a fire at their home this weekend. May their memory be a blessing, and we’re keeping her loved ones in our thoughts.