Your savory breakfast links:
- The Rink crew gets ready for round 1 with a chat about advantages, key players, and of course, predictions. [Rink]
- The Post’s Bailey Johnson joined Japers’ Rink Radio to talk all things Caps ahead of the playoff opener. [Rink]
- Three things we were talking about yesterday when we were talking about the Caps. [Rink]
- Get to know one last Canadien: Patrik Laine. [Rink]
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s Game 1 OT win from us, Vogs, Caps video (Carbery, Ovechkin/Carlson, Wilson, Beauvillier, Thompson, recap), Monumental, Habs, NHL, AP, WaPo (and pics), Gazette, Athletic ($), THN, NoVa Caps, RMNB, TRL, THW, and EOTP.
- It is absolutely wild that Alex Ovechkin had yet to score an overtime goal in the playoffs in his career…until last night. [ESPN, RDS, SI]
- Previewing this first-round matchup from an analytical standpoint. [NoVa Caps]
- This year’s Caps are just a bunch of goobers, and they’re hopeful that the tight bond and overflowing love (and weirdness) in the room will be a recipe for a long playoff run. [WaPo]
- They’d also like to end this 50th season full of celebrations with the biggest celebration of them all. [Caps]
- Something that people might not remember is that, back in 2010, one of the Caps’ assistant coaches was behind the other team’s bench. [RDS]
- Finally, happy 81st birthday to Bob Paradise, happy 64th to Bob Mason, happy 31st to Chandler Stephenson, happy 30th to Madison Bowey, and raise a glass to the memory of Peter Zezel, who would have been 60 years old today.