Your savory breakfast links:
- Taking a read on the hot and cold of the Caps after Week 8 in our latest Temperature Check. [Rink]
- Alex Ovechkin continued to work on his recovery, hitting the ice for a ramped-up skate ahead of yesterday’s practice. [Monumental, THN, USA Today]
- The Caps weren’t given much credit ahead of this season; now they’re out to prove everyone wrong. [The Score]
- After Dylan Strome’s run of dental disasters, some of the Caps give the whole tooth about the chiclets when playing hockey. [THN]
- Updates from yesterday’s practice, including injury updates and a missing Tom Wilson. [Caps video (Carbery), THN]
- Pierre-Luc Dubois looks like a totally different player since arriving in DC. [Daily Faceoff]
- Wayne Gretzky knows a thing or two about being on the cusp of a new NHL record, so he has some insight into where Ovechkin’s nerves will be as he draws closer to 894. [Athletic ($), RDS]
- Checking in on some rankings of power. [Daily Faceoff, THW]