Your savory breakfast links:
- Previewing the special visit to Hershey as the Caps get set to face the Flyers in their second preseason game of the fall. [Caps]
- Updates from camp yesterday, where the captain was back on the ice in a no-contact jersey. [Caps video (Carbery, PLD, Leonard, Sourdif), RMNB]
- He may be moving out soon, but Ryan Leonard has learned a lot from his current landlord, Pierre-Luc Dubois, since moving into PLD’s house at the end of last season. [WaPo]
- Why we love Spencer Carbery, reason #234057908: both the Strome brothers and Protas brothers will suit up together for tonight’s game. Adorable. [THN, RMNB]
- Football and hockey are vastly different sports, but that didn’t stop Carbery from learning as much as he could from Dan Quinn and Adam Peters at Commanders’ training camp this summer. [WaPo]
- Newest Cap Justin Sourdif is excited to be in DC, and ready to show what he can do with the Caps. [THN, RMNB]
- Milton Gästrin, the Caps’ second-round pick this past summer, is already thriving back in Sweden. [THN]
- The Caps are focused on taking their success from last year and building on it. [Puck Prose]
- Next up for the greatest goal-scorer of all time? 900 goals (and beyond) – plus other things fueling the Caps’ 2025-26 season. [Sporting News]
- Previewing the Caps’ upcoming season from across the continent. [FlamesNation]
- Assorted NHL notes, including PLD’s “no bucket” life. [The Score]
- Happy 48th birthday to Alexandre Volchkov!
- Finally, watch the ice go in at Cap One…she’s getting close, kids.