Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps of last night’s victory from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Trotz, Holtby, Williams, Ovechkin, Johansson, Two-Man Advantage), NHL.com, WaPo, CSNMA (gamer, rewind), AP, Peerless, Frankovic, DSP, Stars and Sticks, NVC and RMNB (plus goal gifs), and from the Rangers‘ room, NYT, NYDN, NYPost, Ranger Rants, Lohud, nj.com, CBS NY, and Blueshirt Banter.
- Comebacks are awesome and thrilling but the team knows that they are tempting fate. [CSNMA]
- Keep yer greasy Ranger paws off our goalie, punk. [RMNB]
- “We have a very good team.” Nicklas Backstrom chats with Swedish media. [Aftonbladet]
- Per Elias: The Capitals extended their winning streak to five games by overcoming a 3-1 deficit at the end of the first period to beat the Rangers, 7-3, in New York on Sunday. Two nights earlier Washington trailed, 3-0, at home against Tampa Bay but scored five straight goals to beat the Lightning, 5-3. This is the fifth time in franchise history that the Capitals have won consecutive games by overcoming a deficit of at least two goals in each, but it’s only the second time they’ve done so with two straight regulation-time wins. The only other time they did so was with back-to-back 5-4 wins against the New Jersey Devils and the Hartford Whalers in 1986 (Feb. 1-2).
- Previews of tonight’s clash with Carolina from Vogs (plus game notes), Peerless and NHL.com, and check out our SB Nation pals at Canes Country for the other side of tonight’s match-up.
- What’s going on with the Carolina blueline? [Canes and Coffee]
- The Week That Was, Volume Ten. [Peerless, RMNB, NVC, plus All About the Jersey for the Metro lowdown]
- T.J. Oshie is finding his stride in Washington. [Caps Outsider]
- Congrats are in order for Caps captain Alex Ovechkin, named by Washingtonian Magazine as one of fifteen “Washingtonians of the Year” for his work with American Special Hockey and the Ice Dogs hockey team. [RMNB]
- The hockey staff at USA Today has picked out a perfect Christmas gift for the Caps. [USA Today]
- Finally, happy 37th birthday to Petr Sykora.