Your savory breakfast links:
- Your Hershey Bears are Calder Cup Champions yet again! Sweeter by the baker’s dozen, baby! [AHL, PennLive, Fox43, ABC27, LDNews, WGAL8, CP, Desert Sun, Caps Outsider, RMNB, NoVa Caps]
- It was none other than Dylan Strome’s little brother, Matt, scoring the Cup-clinching OT winner in Game 6:
- Roar. Repeated.
- And of course, congratulations to Hendrix Lapierre on winning the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as the playoff MVP!
- The Capitals will be celebrating their 50th anniversary in style, unveiling a new logo and jersey patch to kick off their half-century of existence in the NHL. [Caps, Monumental, WaPo, WashTimes]
- A legacy in ALL CAPS:
- With the NHL draft just a few days away, Assistant GM Ross Mahoney and his team are confident they’ll be able to find some talent at #17. [Caps video, Monumental]
- Sounds like they may be targeting a blueliner if they can with that first-round pick. [THN]
- The Caps just traded for Pierre-Luc Dubois last week…but they may have other irons in the fire for improving the team leading up to the draft. [WashTimes]
- Finally, happy 50th birthday to Glen Metropolit!