Your savory breakfast links:
- Martin Fehervary and Team Slovakia lost to Sweden yesterday…but thanks to a late goal, they still secured the top spot in their group and a bye into the quarterfinal round. Absolutely wild. [NHL, Sportsnet, The Athletic ($)]
- Meanwhile Team USA survived an early scare – including a pretty awful goal-against halfway through the first – to down Denmark… [NHL]
- …and now get the chance to punch their own ticket to the quarterfinal if they can beat Team Germany this afternoon. [NHL, Olympics]
- Having already snagged their group’s top spot, Team Canada looks to go a perfect 3-0 as they wrap up their preliminary schedule today against France. [Hockey Canada, Olympics]
- As the Caps start to consider what moves they will or won’t make at the upcoming trade deadline, there are a few players they could look at moving on from. [THW]
- Ryan Leonard continues to put a pretty nice rookie campaign together (despite not getting the benefit of high-end deployment like some of his contemporaries). [Dobber]
- Logan Thompson’s path to Milan is exactly the kind of perseverance that makes the Olympics so great. [THN]
- Happy 28th birthday to Dennis Cholowski, happy 52nd to Martin Gendron, and happy 54th to some guy named… /checks notes…Jaromír Jágr.