Your savory breakfast links:
- On balance, this team is fairly well-balanced. [Rink]
- Grab yourself something frosty and a book of great quotes and challenge Peerless to a throwdown. [Rink]
- Previews of tonight’s mêlée à Montréal from Vogs (plus game notes), NHL.com, and Peerless, and check out our SB Nation buddies at Eyes On The Prize for the other side of tonight’s match-up.
- This game feels different, does it not? You can almost see the measuring sticks clutched in sweaty palms. [Montreal Gazette, Eyes on the Prize, RDS (link in French), CSNMA]
- This Habsblogger has some advice for Michel Therrien regarding line shuffling: Don’t. [THW]
- News and notes from yesterday out at Kettler:
- In general. [Monumental video (Trotz, Schmidt, Capitals Report)]
- Brooks Orpik provides an update, sort of, on his recovery from a still-mysterious injury. TL;DR version – it still hurts. [Monumental (video), CSNMA (and again), WaPo]
- “You see him on another team, ‘Mr. Game 7,’ but then he gets here, and he’s witty and funny and easygoing.” Tom Wilson and other Caps and his coach talking about Justin Williams. [WaPo]
- What a difference a year makes. [WashTimes]
- Step One for all of Mitch Korn’s goalies is a visit to a vision clinic in Minnesota, where they get testing and specialized training regimens. [NHL.com]
- Report card time! [RMNB]
- Stupid Corsi. [S&S]
- Down a level, injuries in Hershey have provided opportunity to Tyler Lewington and Austin Fyten…[Patriot-News]
- … and down a second level, Stingrays goalie Vitek Vanecek was named ECHL Rookie of the Month. [ECHL.com]
- Anyone need a stick? Alex Ovechkin has a few spares at his pad. [NVC]
- The history of hockey cards. [Sportsnet]
- Finally, happy 49th birthday to Ken Lovsin.
- One more – oh hai there Sasha Minor!
The Capitals with Alex Ovechkin at Bis!! pic.twitter.com/vGdyd4FJZE
— Marcello Abate (@AbateMarcello) December 3, 2015
- Okay, two more – it’s Oatsey, from hockey!
Oatesy out for dinner with one of his best buddies @ovi8 pic.twitter.com/z62W7UQWtq
— OPP Hockey (@opphockey) November 30, 2015