Your savory breakfast links:
- Previews of the soirée in Sunrise from Vogs, NHL.com and Peerless, and be sure to check out our SB Nation partners over at Litter Box Cats for more from the other side of tonight’s match-up.
- Notes and assorted whatnot from the off-day:
- Hello, again, hello … [WaPo]
- … looks like you’ve chopped your flow. [DC Sports Bog]
- Just give him the damn ball already. [WashTimes, WaPo]
- Jack Hillen, confidence man. [Capitals Voice (audio), and Caps Minute]
- Here come the Capitals. Wait, what? [ESPN]
- A few more bits-n-bytes in discussion of the trade for Martin Erat. [On the Forecheck, OFB, Homer McFanboy, Smashville 24/7]
- Oh, and about this Michael Latta kid … [RMNB, Hockey Gal Milwaukee]
- ‘Twas D-Day at Caps HQ as the organ-i-zation announced signings of two defensemen. [CSNW]
- Patrick Wey has inked his two-year ELC with the Caps. Our SB Nation buddies tell us we’re getting a good one. [BC Interruption, @WashCaps, RMNB]
- Hershey blueliner Julien Brouillette has earned his first-ever NHL contract – a one year, two-way deal for the 2013-14 season. Huzzah! [Patriot-News]
- Down a level, Tomas Kundratek (two goals) and Dmitry Orlov (one assist) picked up their game and came out hard for the Hershey Bears, who defeated the Syracuse Crunch 4-1. [Patriot News, SHoE]
- The Reading Royals were victorious in the first game of the first round of the Kelly Cup playoffs with a 1-0 win over the Greenville Road Warriors… [Reading Eagle]
- … who may very well have been blinded by these. [@RRoyalsHockey]
- Finally, happy 34th birthday to Matt Yeats (Yahtzee!), happy 42nd to Trevor Halverson, and happy 43rd birthday to Coach Kolzig.