Your savory double serving of breakfast links:
- The Capitals’ 50th anniversary season starts in mere days – here’s what to expect as we celebrate 50 years of Caps hockey. [WUSA9]
- Part of the celebration kicked off Monday, with some of the team’s original season ticketholders getting this season’s pack of tickets hand-delivered by some familiar faces… [Caps]
- …and continued Tuesday, with those original STH fans getting invited to a special closed practice and reception. [Rink]
- Ladies and gentlemen, your 2024-25 Washington Capitals Opening Night Roster! [Caps, WaPo]
- There was a returning old friend on that roster, as the Capitals have officially signed Jakub Vrana to a one-year deal. Way to go, V! [Caps, Rink, THN (and more), NoVa Caps, RMNB, Caps Outsider]
- With Vrana making the squad, Andrew Cristall headed back to Kelowna and Ivan Miroshnichenko back to Hershey. For now. [@CapitalsPR, WHN]
- Cristall certainly didn’t make this easy on the Caps’ brass, but ultimately they see it as the right move for his development. [THN]
- Perhaps another surprising name on this year’s roster is Dylan McIlrath, who starts the season in the NHL for the first time in eight years. [THN]
- His offseason bout with cancer in the rearview mirror, John Walton is back in the radio booth where he belongs – and it means a little more now. [WaPo]
- As the Utah Hockey Club kicks off their new franchise, two veterans of the old Arizona team have reunited in DC. [WHN]
- The Caps were one of a handful of teams having to execute some salary cap gymnastics at the roster cutoff this week. [THN]
- Everyone’s got their eyes on Alex Ovechkin’s chase for Wayne Gretzky, but there are more milestones within the big guy’s reach this season. [Caps Outsider]
- Predictions, power rankings, and best/worst-case scenarios and more for the upcoming season. [ESPN, Pensburgh, S&S]
- News and updates from yesterday’s practice at COA. [Caps video (Carbery, McIlrath, Caps365), THN]
- 50 years is a lot of games…which ones have meant the most to you? Submit them here! [WaPo]