Your savory breakfast links:
- What do you get for a team that just won the Winter Classic and took five of six points on the week? A bunch of green up arrows, of course. [Rink]
- With three goal-and-an-assist games, Alex Ovechkin is the NHL’s second star for last week… [NHL.com]
- … and credits his coach and teammates for getting him there. Typical. [Monumental (video), WaPo, CSNW, WashTimes]
- News and notes from yesterday out at Kettler:
- In general. [Monumental video (Trotz, Green, Alzner, Carlson, Laich)
- Matt Niskanen sat out practice with a lower-body injury, but will try to give it a go today. [WaPo, CSNW, WashTimes, and if you’re looking for a Niskanen Winter Classic bobblehead, give some blood]
- Andre Burakovsky is trying to stay medium. [NBC4, WashTimes]
- Several Caps offered their predictions on last night’s World Junior Championship final. Some of them were right. [RMNB]
- Karl Alzner set a new single-season career high in goals on Sunday and people are writing about it… [WaPo, Rink]
- … and talking to him about it. [106.7 The Fan (audio)]
- And while we’re on 106.7 The Fan, Eric Fehr did a hit with The Junkies yesterday (after which EB said nice things that make us blush). [106.7 The Fan (audio)]
- When talking about the NHL’s most productive power forwards, there’s really one dude and then everyone else. [CBS Sports]
- Ranking teams according to their power. [ESPN, The Score, Copper & Blue]
- Mike Green is disappointing fantasy owners. [Dobber]
- J_hn Walt_n. I’d like to buy an “O,” Pat Sajak. [DC Sports Bog]
- Monday is Winter Classic Puck Surprise night where you could get your puck signed by Troy Brouwer himself. [Capitals]
- Speaking of Brouwer, when his wife doesn’t like his bobblehead, you change it. [DC Sports Bog]
- And speaking of the Classic, the Feds seized more than $25k in counterfeit Winter Classic merch – bad news for you if you just realized there’s a typo on that “Capitols” jersey you bought on the cheap. [DHS]
- I was really hoping this story about Ted Leonsis, Mark Lerner and Q-Tip had something to do with A Tribe Called Quest. Alas. [DC Sports Bog]
- “Caps Day on The Bog” continues with news that you can get that disgusting beef-covered-half-smoke at Verizon Center now. Area cardiologists, rejoice! [DC Sports Bog]
- Tim Leone talks Bears and Caps. [Patriot-News and again]
- Checking in on Caps prospects Thomas Di Pauli and Brian Pinho. [SBN College Hockey]
- Finally, happy 39th birthday to Richard Zednik and happy 60th to Alex Forsythe.