Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings from yesterday’s loss to the Ottawa Senators from us, Vogs, WaPo ($), AP (and again), NHL, Athletic ($), FLM, Caps video (recap, Coach Carbery, Wilson, van Riemsdyk, Duhaime), THN, and RMNB.
- A few leftovers from the Caps’ victory over the Blue Jackets on Friday. [Rink, RMNB]
- The Washington Capitals activated Pierre-Luc Dubois from IR and loaned Ethen Frank to the Hershey Bears yesterday. [THN, RMNB, Bears]
- Yesterday, Alex Ovechkin became just the eighth player to appear in 1,500 games with a single NHL franchise. [Athletic, RMNB]
- 1,500 games later, Ovi’s still got it. [THN]
- Every NHL team is struggling with something to start this season, and the Capitals make the list with exactly what everyone would expect. [Athletic]
- If you need a palate cleanser after last night’s game, re-live this glorious Ovechkin moment in a Caps-Sens matchup from 2007. [Rink]
- Or perhaps another Ovi palate cleanser: breaking down the play that resulted in his 899th goal. [WaPo]
- Andrew Cristall scored his first goal with the Hershey Bears yesterday in their 4-3 shootout win over the Phantoms. [Bears, RMNB]