Your savory breakfast links:
- Congrats to Alex Ovechkin for winning the incredibly important and not at all pointless Mark Messier Leadership Award. [Caps, NHL, Monumental]
- The 50th anniversary season was one filled with milestones and momentum, even with its bittersweet ending. [THW]
- After a career year, Aliaksei Protas is ready to show the Caps that his 2024-25 campaign was not a fluke but rather just the beginning. [THN]
- Mike Sgarbossa talks about the difficult decision to leave Hershey for HC Lugano in Switzerland (although if you’ve visited both places, have to think it’s probably not that difficult). [THN]
- Handing out some grades for Sgarbossa and Alex Alexeyev. [S&S (Alexeyev, Sgarbossa)]
- Finally, happy 37th birthday to Zach Sill and happy 34th to Cody Eakin!