Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s win from us, Vogs, Caps video (Carbery, Ovechkin, Strome, Leonard, Lindgren, recap), NHL, AP, WaPo, NESN, THN, NoVa Caps, RMNB, and Caps Outsider.
- Four to go. [NHL, AP]
- The Caps are back in Raleigh tonight, the place where it all began for Alex Ovechkin and the Capitals at the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. [NHL]
- Boston’s David Pastrnak – a pretty good goal-scorer in his own right – is impressed and inspired by Ovechkin’s consistency. [NHL]
- Hear from the players, coaches, and voices who knew him 20 years ago in this oral history of Ovechkin’s electric entrance to the NHL. [The Score]
- A look at what Ryan Leonard can add to the Capitals in the short-term and long-term, and why he’s a “unicorn”. [Sportsnet]
- Coach Carbery definitely hopes that Leonard can give his team a little jolt as the season winds down and playoffs ramp up. [MassLive]
- The Caps re-signed forward Spencer Smallman to a two-year, two-way contract extension. [Caps]
- Happy 42nd birthday to Owen Fussey and Joey Tenute!
- Finally, back in the win column means happy locker room…but this time, let’s get a double dose of the new kid, before and after the win: