Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on yesterday’s win from us, Vogs, Caps video (Carbery, I. Protas, Leonard, Wilson, Ovechkin, recap), NHL, AP, WaPo, TribLive, THN, RMNB, and Pensburgh.
- It’s wild that Alex Ovechkin – public enemy #1 for many years in Pittsburgh – has now gotten a standing ovation not once but twice in the last two years in Steeltown. [NHL, AP]
- The win was great, but it wasn’t without a cost, as the Caps lost both Pierre-Luc Dubois and Rasmus Sandin to injuries. [THN]
- Checking in on some of the next young batch of NHL stars late in the season. [THN]
- Finally, happy 74th birthday to Mike Bloom, happy 72nd to Antero Lehtonen, happy 52nd to Roman Hamrlik, and raise a glass to the memory of Bob Girard, who would’ve been 77 today.