Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s win from us (QuickCap, Morning After), Vogs, Caps video (Carbery, Ovechkin, Kuemper, Malenstyn, recap), Pens, NHL, AP, WaPo, Tribune-Review, THN, NoVa Caps, RMNB, PHN, and Pensburgh.
- New Cap Ethan Bear went through the full gamut of emotions before making his debut with the team on Saturday night. [WaPo, Windspeaker]
- Aliaksei Protas continues to perform at a high level for the Caps, earning nothing but praise from his coaching staff. [Monumental]
- The Caps are right back at it tonight, hosting the Devils – who will be without forward Timo Meier, out with a “medium-body” injury. K. [ESPN]
- So perhaps the Caps won the Anthony Mantha/Jakub Vrana trade after all? [S&S]
- Checking in on some of the Caps’ prospects, including Ryan Leonard’s ongoing beastmode presence for Team USA at the World Juniors. [THN, USA Hockey]
- DC activists are planning a protest against Monumental’s move of the Caps and Wizards out of DC. [Fox5DC]
- Happy 50th birthday to Stefan Ustorf, and happy 55th to Steve Poapst.
- Finally, congrats to Clay Stevenson, who picked up AHL Goaltender of the Month honors for December – to the delight of his teammates. Attaboy, Mud!