Your savory breakfast links:
- Caps’ GM Brian MacLellan talks about the season that was, the window for the Caps, and his list of offseason priorities – the highest of which is finding a top-line winger. [Dump ‘n Chase, WaPo (and again and again), CSNW(and again), PHT, The Score]
- Season in review:
- Nicklas Backstrom. [Rink, RMNB, Stars and Sticks]
- John Carlson. [WaPo]
- Brooks Orpik. [WaPo]
- Mike Green. [Peerless]
- Considering he didn’t play a single game, it’s not surprising that Dmitry Orlov wants to forget about the 2014-15 season altogether. [RMNB]
- So many expiring contracts, so little time. [GM on a Couch, Stars and Sticks, PressboxDC]
- So many questions to answer. [DSP]
- What’s next? [WaPo (video)]
- The season didn’t end the way they wanted it to, but the Caps are staying positive as they look to next season. [TVA]
- Alex Ovechkin was one of a handful of Russian players to stick around for the Canadian national anthem after losing the final game, but most of his team didn’t – and now they may face punishment. [Globe and Mail, CSNW, Sports Features]
- Making the case for Ovechkin’s fourth Hart Trophy win. [Stars and Sticks]
- The most powerful athlete in the most powerful city in the world is… not a shock. [WTOP]
- More on the beginning of the end for the Verizon Center being called the Verizon Center. [Bullets Forever, Today’s Slapshot]
- A lot of people fired up the ol’ interwebs to watch the Caps lose to the Rangers in Game 7. Poor bastards. [Sports Video Group]
- After racking up the same number of penalties in Game 7 as points in the playoffs, Mike Green checks in with a slew of stars who sputtered this postseason. [Grantland (DGB)]
- Looking back at some really good moments from the Caps’ 2014-15 season. [CSNW]
- If the 2010 NHL draft were redone, would Erik Gudbranson be the new Evgeny Kuznetsov? [ESPN ($)]
- Updates on some soon-to-be UFAs for the Hershey Bears. [Patriot-News (O’Brien, Schilling/Oleksy, full list)]
- Slovakian defenseman Michal Cajkovsky has racked up eight points in the Stingrays’ playoff run so far, and is developing into an NHL prospect. [Post and Courier]
- Today’s NHL game is a young man’s game, and a fast game… but is it a skilled game? [PHT, Vancouver Sun]
- Culture change champions!! [Brad4dboy Comics]
- Ted Leonsis complains about the continued lack of coverage in an eternal football town, Tony Kornheiser does his Tony Kornheiser shtick. #TeamTed [WaPo]
- Speaking of media coverage, happy trails and many congrats to a couple of local sports anchors moving on to the next phase in their career/life. [WaPo, PressboxDC]
- Finally, happy 69th birthday to Craig Patrick.