Your savory breakfast links:
- Does Alex Ovechkin need a new center? [Rink]
- Checking in on who is trending up and who is on the way down, eight weeks into the season. [Rink]
- The big news of the day yesterday was the likely announcement, coming later this morning, of a new arena for the Capitals and Wizards out in Northern Virginia. [WaPo, WTOP, WashTimes, ESPN, CBS]
- While it seems like the deal is all but done, DC mayor Muriel Bowser introduced legislation that would provide $500M in renovations to keep the teams in the District. [Mayor.dc.gov]
- There are plenty of reasons for the Caps and Wiz to head south…and all of them are sad. [WaPo]
- Those forward lines are finally starting to click for Coach Carbery, as demonstrated by the 12 goals they’ve scored over the last three games. [WaPo]
- Reports have the Caps signing defenseman Ethan Bear to a new two-year deal. [RDS]
- The Caps have re-signed Hershey netminder Clay Stevenson to a new three-year deal. [Caps, FLM]
- After missing six games with an upper-body injury, T.J. Oshie is back in the lineup and already making an impact. [NoVa Caps]
- Caps’ prospect Ryan Leonard will be among the invites at Team USA’s selection camp for the upcoming World Junior Championship. [NHL]
- This year’s All-Star Skills competition is going to look completely different, as the NHL and NHLPA work to breathe new life into the midseason event. [NHL]
- Finally, happy 38th birthday to Andrew Gordon, happy 48th to Bates Battaglia, happy 54th to Sergei Fedorov – and raise a glass to the memory of Doug Mohns, who would have been 90 years old today.