Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s thrashing of Atlanta from us, Vogs, DCEx, Joe B., Ed Frankovic, Peerless, FFOD, RMNB, RTR, Cap Centre, Ice Man (Thrashers) and Tarik (blog, gamer)
- Maybe the Caps should fly in on game day more often. [CI]
- “They want to make it happen,” in which “they” are the Caps and “it” is trading for Ilya Kovalchuk (Winter Classic note, too). [Ottawa Sun]
- Peerless hands out mid-season awards. [Peerless]
- A look at the Caps’ AHL prospects at the season’s midpoint. [Hockey’s Future]
- Make it a team-record dozen wins in a row for the Bears, who managed to overcome a relatively poor game from Braden Holtby (he got shelled for two goals against on just 35 shots) en route to a 3-2 victory. [Patriot-News, HBH]
- Local pond hockey is a beautiful thing. [OFB]
- Finally, happy 20th birthday to American Hero John Carlson, and happy 30th to Rastislav Stana.