Your savory breakfast links:
- After leaving Sunday’s preseason action early with an apparent arm injury, Trevor Van Riemsdyk is apparently okay…but fellow blueliner and new Cap Joel Edmundson is not. [S&S, Journal de Montreal]
- Bad news for Edmundson could mean good news for one of the team’s younger defensemen – perhaps like Vincent Iorio? – to step up and grab the roster spot. [Caps, THN, RMNB]
- Hear from the coach and a trio of defensemen after yesterday’s return to the ice. [Caps video (Carbery, TvR, Iorio, Alexeyev)]
- Could a good fit for the classic Ovechkin-Backstrom combination be Anthony Mantha? [Pokechecked by Murphy]
- Remembering his own foray into North American hockey, Alex Ovechkin has taken fellow Russian Ivan Miroshnichenko under his wing. [THN]
- There have been a lot of naysayers about the Caps’ playoff chances this year…but we’ve found a detractor from the pack. [WHN]
- Is Ovechkin’s quest for Gretzky the only reason for the Washington Capitals entire existence in the universe? Sure. Obviously. [Deadspin]
- Some of the NHL’s top names are rooting for the new women’s hockey league, the PWHL, to succeed. Hear, hear! (And then bring a team to DC!) [AP]
- Finally, happy 65th birthday to Paul Mulvey!