Your savory breakfast links:
- Congrats to our own Jason Rogers, who represented the Rink postgame for a segment on Comcast’s Sports Talk Live. [CSNMA (video)]
- Rink reading from yesterday: The Narrative, Key Matchups, Rink Roundtable, and GtK the Flyers’ PP.
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s shutout victory from us, Vogs (plus game notes), Monumental video (Trotz, Carlson, Niskanen, Backstrom, Hakstol, Flyers room), NHL.com (recap, analysis), WaPo (gamer, blog, blog, blog, photos), CSNW (gamer, rewind), ESPN (and again, and Barry Melrose approves), Sportsnet (gamer, blog), SI, PHT (and again), AP, Frankovic, RMNB, DSP, Stars and Sticks, NoVa Caps Fans (gamer, blog) and FiCP, and from the Flyers‘ end of the ice, Broad Street Hockey, Flyerdelphia (and again), Courier-Post, philly.com.
- Flyers forward Sean Couturier left the game after an Ovechkin hit put him hard into the boards, and according to reports, he may be done for the series. [PHT]
- There’s no business like snow business, and Andre Burakovsky brought the snow business on Jay Beagle ‘s goal. [RMNB]
- Some gave all; all gave some. Brooks Orpik sacrificed a tooth that his team might prosper. [RMNB]
- Switch, flipped – and questions answered. [WaPo, WashTimes, THN]
- Ev’rybody was kung-fu fighting… [Deadspin, SI.com]
- You guys, Tom Wilson totally set his trap, and Wayne Simmonds totally walked right into it. [BSH, Caps Outsider, RMNB]
- Fans in attendance at the game each received a
rally towelrally blinky-bracelet. Entitled to nothing! [Caps Outsider] - Hockey Night in Canada made a pretty great 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs opening video. [Sportsnet]
- Updates from yesterday’s morning optional skate:
- In general. [Dump-n-Chase (and again), Monumental video (Two-Man Advantage, Trotz, Holtby, Ovechkin, Burakovsky, Rinkside Update/Kuznetsov)]
- Getting ready for puck drop:
- Two bandwagon guides for those still seeking a rooting interest. [Sportsnet, Mile High Hockey]
- Only the brave would bet on the Caps to win out. [SI]
- The biggest game is between the ears. [NatPo]
- Five reasons it is different this year. [Puck Daddy]
- Alex Prewitt wrote a terrific piece on Alex Ovechkin and his West Coast pilgrimage to meet with Wayne Gretzky. Let this be the year. [SI.com]
- Revisiting the trade that sent Mike Richards from Philadelphia to LA. [CBS Sports]
- Finally, happy 58th birthday to Keith Acton, and happy 39th to Brian Pothier.