Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s loss from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Trotz, Laich, Backstrom, Alzner), NHL.com, AP, Reuters, WaPo (gamer, blog), Dallas Morning News (and again), Peerless, DSP, RMNB, Blackout Dallas, and Defending Big D.
- It’s become a great tradition for the Dallas Stars‘ scoreboard to be put to use for some gentle teasing of that evening’s opponent… and last night the Caps took their turn. [FoxSports]
- News and notes from yesterday’s pregame discussions:
- In general. [Dump ‘n Chase, Monumental video (Trotz)]
- No longer a minus-35 player (for many reasons), Alex Ovechkin is improving the defensive side of his game while keeping up all of that goal scoring he likes to do. [WaPo]
- These days it’s a young man’s game in Washington, with the Caps getting contributions from a trio of young players. [HF]
- The Caps are hoping that one of those players, Andre Burakovsky, follows a similar path to fellow Swede and former (*sigh*) Caps’ prospect Filip Forsberg. [WaPo]
- Down in Hershey, another Caps’ prospect in Stanislav Galiev celebrated his birthday with two big goals to help move the Bears into first place in the East Division. [Patriot-News]
- Finally, raise a glass in honor of the late Pete Laframboise, who would have been 65 today.