Your savory Sunday brunch links:
- Japers’ Rink Radio hits the interwaves today at 10, with a wrapup of the Winter Classic with guest Dan Steinberg, and discussion of the Alumni Game with Alan May. Join us, won’t you? [JRR]
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s Classic victory from us, Vogs, NHL.com (Rosen), WaPo (Carrera: blog, gamer), DCEX (McNally: gamer), CSN Washington (Masisak), Caps365 video (Ovechkin/Fehr, Green/Carlson, Stecks/Beags/Chimera, Varly/Erskine), Peerless, Frankovic, RMNB (blog, pics), OFB, Puckhead, SB Nation DC, TBD, Caps Outsider, StC, Musings of a Hockey Mom, Make Lemons, Inside Hockey, CapsNewsNetwork (pics), PensBurgh, PensBlog, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Molinari).
- NHL.com lists Semyon Varlamov, Eric Fehr, and Evgeni Malkin as the three stars of the game, but we all know the actual three stars were the weather, the spectacle of it all, and ice guru Dan Craig’s ice crew. [NHL.com (Roarke), NHL.com (Condor), Pittsburgh Live (Starkey), Pittsburgh Live (Cohn)]
- Did someone say spectacle? [SteinBog]
- Consensus on the new-look Winter Classic: Awesomesauce. [ESPN (Burnside), Puck Daddy, PHT, NHL.com (Lozo), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Collier)]
- Unless you’re the Canadian media, that is. Harrumph. And also get off our lawn. [Toronto Sun, Toronto Star]
- A big and convincing win under the harshest spotlight in the sport under incredibly adverse conditions makes one’s Captain magically more captain-y and one’s contending Team more contender-ish. Still looking for the article about the wise and adaptable coach with a steady hand on the tiller for the hat trick. [PHT, Sporting News]
- Oh wait, we found it. [NHL.com]
- That was a pretty big stage the Caps found themselves on last night… [WaPo (Steinberg), Yahoo! Sports (Cotsonika)]
- …which suited Alex Ovechkin just fine… [NHL.com (Rosen)]
- …and by the way, that’s a mighty fine rivalry you have there. [Ibid.]
- Y’know how you always find a lost item in the last place you look? Well, Fehr must’ve left his game outside this season. [NHL.com (Masisak), USA Today (Allen), Pittsburgh Live (Yohe)]
- Var-ly! Var-ly! Var-ly! [ESPN (LeBrun), Caps Insider, Half Smokes, WaPo (El-Bashir)]
- And don’t forget John Carlson and Karl Alzner. The opposing forwards certainly can’t. [CSN Washington (O’Halloran)]
- Star cams, get yer Ovi and Sidney Crosby star cams here. [PHT]
- ZOMG, HANDSHAKE-GATE!!!!1! Or not. [Puck Daddy, PPG]
- Sorting out David Steckel and that hit on Sidney Crosby. [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, CI, USA Today, NBC Washington, HotH)
- Finally, the funny thing about predictions is that they are often hilariously wrong – and they are sometimes right on the money. Every once in a while, they are both. [NHL.com]
