Your savory breakfast links:
- The season in review:
- Jason Chimera. [Rink, RMNB]
- Evgeny Kuznetsov. [Peerless]
- Michael Latta. [Peerless]
- Matt Niskanen. [CSNMA]
- Next season, Jay Beagle wants the Caps to see him as the team’s third-line center… [CSNMA]
- …but he might have some competition from Chandler Stephenson, who has been turning heads in Hershey. [WaPo]
- And they both might have competition from the outside, as there are a couple of soon-to-be free agents who might be of interest to the Caps. [NoVa Caps]
- Perhaps the Caps will also kick the tires – again – on pending UFA defenseman Dan Hamhuis. [NoVa Caps]
- Taking a look at pending RFA Dmitry Orlov. [Stars and Sticks]
- If the Caps want to make a serious run next year, they might do well to take notes from the Tampa Bay Lightning. [NoVa Caps]
- Postseason on the farm:
- As befits a team in the Washington Capitals organization, the Stingrays are headed to Game 7 after falling to Wheeling in OT last night. [Stingrays, Post and Courier, Caps Outsider]
- Meanwhile the Bears have a 2-0 series lead over the Marlies… but don’t count Toronto out just yet. [Caps Outsider]
- You can’t stop Carter Camper; you can only hope to contain him. [Patriot-News]
- Unfortunately for Riley Barber, Camper’s unstoppable nature has relegated him to the pressbox during the playoffs. [NoVa Caps]
- All we are saying is give Stanislav Galiev a chance. [Stars and Sticks]
- The trade that sent Brooks Laich to Toronto is one that will continue to pay off this summer as the Caps get ready to retool for the 2016-17 season. [Stars and Sticks]
- Finally, happy 25th birthday to Cody Eakin, and happy 28th to Zach Sill.