Your savory breakfast links:
- Wrapping up a very active 2024-25 season for GM Chris Patrick and the team’s front office. [Rink]
- The preseason schedule is (sort of) out! Let the countdown to almost-real Caps hockey begin. [Rink]
- Getting ready for this weekend’s drafts with some mock drafty goodness and potential draft targets for the Caps. [THN, The Score, THW]
- This year’s decentralized draft is creating all kinds of challenges for the TV audience. [AP]
- The NHL and NHLPA continue to work toward a new collective bargaining agreement. [NHL]
- One of the reported topics is an 84-game regular season. Because that’s the problem with the season right now…it’s too short. [AP]
- Ranking the 32 teams by defensive depth (spoiler: the Caps are pretty strong in this department). [The Athletic ($)]
- Breaking down the top 50 free agents (potentially) hitting the market next week. [Toronto Sun]
- The Caps have re-signed AHL goaltender Mitch Gibson to a one-year contract extension. [Bears]
- As Alex Ovechkin’s career winds down (*sob*), those who have played with him know it’s not just the goals – he brings a Presence to the locker room that can’t be replicated. [THN]
- Finally, happy 45th birthday to John Erskine, and happy 28th to Ethan Bear!