Your savory breakfast links:
- Previewing the Caps’ first game of the preseason as they head up to Boston to face the Bruins. Caps (preseason) hockey (with a lineup that barely resembles the real thing) is back, baby! [Caps]
- Check in with the coach and some of the boys after a Saturday at camp. [Caps video (Carbery, Beauvillier, Sandin, Chisholm, Stevenson)]
- There aren’t a ton of spots available for some of the Caps youngsters to grab this fall, so the GM is expecting something of a dogfight to grab one of them. [WaPo]
- Like many of his teammates, Pierre-Luc Dubois had a career year last year, and he’s looking to build on that in the upcoming 2025-26 campaign. [THW]
- There have been a ton of new jerseys coming out this offseason; here’s how they rank. (Also they’re wrong and losing the diagonal stripe was an upgrade, FYI, I will not be taking questions.) [The Score]
- John Carlson wants to keep up with buddy Nick Backstrom’s SHL career, but to do so he’s needed to enlist the help of one of the team’s remaining Swedes, Rasmus Sandin. [RMNB]
- Finally, happy 56th birthday to Curtis Leschyshyn, and happy 35th to Nick Jensen!