Your savory breakfast links:
- Who’s up and who’s down after last week? [Rink]
- Recaps and other assorted musings from last night’s loss in Arizona from us, Vogs, Caps video (Carbery, Wilson, Lindgren, Ovechkin, recap), Coyotes, NHL, AP, WaPo, S&S, RMNB, NoVa Caps,
- The big news ahead of last night’s stumble: Evgeny Kuznetsov would be a healthy scratch. [WaPo, NHL]
- Can Alex Ovechkin shake off his slow start to continue his chase for Gretzky’s record? [CBS Sports]
- The Caps may have to break up what has been their best line of late to help the other lines. [WaPo]
- After last summer’s ACL surgery, Tom Wilson has slowly been working his way back to full strength – and his speed is finally back. [RMNB]
- Connor Bedard gets his first look at Ovechkin – and vice versa – next weekend. Get excited. [NHL]
- Thanks for flying across the country at the last minute, Hunter Shepard…now back to Hershey with you! [Caps]
- We are in a golden age of sibling rivalries in the NHL, including two of the Caps with brothers on other teams. [AP]
- Who are the most underrated players in Caps’ franchise history? [WHN]
- Rankings of power. [Sportsnet, THW]
- Finally, happy 37th birthday to Julien Brouillette, and happy 29th to Tyler Lewington!