Your savory breakfast links:
- It’s the same, but different. 2015-16 is not 2009-10, but is kinda sorta similar, and the players who were a part of both squads are working to write a better ending. [WashTimes]
- ESPN’s “Inside the NHL” crew are pretty stoked over the Caps and the Stars. [ESPN (video)]
- So. Are the Caps really that good or is everyone else really that bad? [Friends in Cold Places]
- Barry Trotz checked in with the Sports Junkies as his squad headed to break. [106.7 (December 23, segment 10)]
- Any sports city that gets to watch Alex Ovechkin, Bryce Harper, and John Wall on the regular is indeed a fortunate sports city. [CSNMA, Stars and Sticks]
- Related: Fight! For old DC! [WaPo]
- Miss u, Wardo! But perhaps not quite as much as we thought we might. [S&S]
- Steady is as steady does. And Matt Niskanen does steady. [NVC]
- Like father, like son. Former NHL depth defenseman Marc Chorney is reveling in his son’s success as an active NHL depth defenseman. [Dump-n-Chase]
- Liam O’Brien must serve a three-game suspension after accumulating his second match penalty in a three-day span. [Patriot-News]
- George McPhee‘s son Graham is working his way up the hockey ladder, playing forward with the US National Development Program and ticketed to play for his father’s college coach at Boston College. He shares how newly-arrived-in-America Ovechkin helped grow his (age 7) game… [US National U-18 Team]
- … and presumably Graham helped Ovi grow his “learning to speak English” game. [Graham Bensinger via YouTube]
- Have a holly jolly Capsmas! [NVC, WaPo, Backwards Slapshot]
- Speaking of Capsmas, Tom Boswell at the Washington Post hosted a reader chat recently and had lots of good things to say about the hockey club. And he gave his readers this reminder: “When you get a team like this, just enjoy it. You don’t know how long they’ll stay healthy, play this well. Don’t miss it as it happens. The Skins are playing nice football — but no better than two dozen D.C. teams in the past (at least) and nowhere close to the best Skins teams. There have been Caps teams that played defense this well for the Murrays and teams that scored like crazy in the peak Ovi-Backstrom-Semin-Green years. But there’s never been an entire package like this.” Let our hockey hearts be full.
- :: checks watch ::
That night there was no #Caps game . . . pic.twitter.com/QEqQczInA5
— TillyCapsFan (@TillyCapsFan) December 24, 2015