Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps of yesterday’s overtime loss from us, Vogs, Monumental video (Trotz, Holtby, Backstrom, Carlson, Beagle), NHL.com, AP, WaPo, CSNMA, Peerless, DSP, RMNB, and from the other end of the ice, Illegal Curve and Arctic Ice Hockey.
- Oh hey, a coaches’ challenge that didn’t go the Caps’ way. Imagine that:
- You won’t need to imagine so very hard after all. Coach Trotz is 0-for-4, and the Caps are 1-for-8 overall in challenged goals… [WaPo]
- … and this particular goal review has Coach all fired up… [Puck Daddy, CBS Sports, CSNMA, CBC, Sportsnet, RMNB]
- … and maybe, just maybe the Lig is going to take a look at the replay process. [Sportsnet]
- Dear Braden Holtby – Dude, your brain is supposed to be in the bucket when the puck is in play. [InGoalMag]
- “When you start to say you’ve passed Jacques Lemaire or Bryan Murray – who coached me and I think is a fantastic coach – and all of a sudden you’re passing people with those type of names, I’m like ‘one of these things doesn’t belong here.’ I’ve been very fortunate to work for great people and I’ve been doing this for a long time and I guess the wins do add up.” Barry Trotz, keeping it real as he talks to the Manitoba media. [WFP]
- With 50+ games to play, let’s speculate about post-season awards:
- Alex Ovechkin has 487 career goals; Marian Hossa has 490. Who gets to 500 first? [Pro Ice Hockey]
- Are the Caps taking a page from USSR Soviet-style hockey? [Along the Boards]
- Finally, happy 54th birthday to Chris Valentine, and happy 29th to Matt Niskanen.