Your savory breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s win from us, Vogs, Caps video (Carbery, Thompson, Vrana, Chychrun, Ovechkin, recap), NHL, AP, Reuters, WaPo, Vegas Sun, THN, WHN, NoVa Caps, RMNB, Caps Outsider, and SinBin.
- Logan Thompson made his regular-season debut against his former squad, and was eager to get that moment out of the way and move forward with his new team. [WaPo]
- Last night was another chapter in the Alex Ovechkin history book, as he notched career assist #700, becoming just the sixth player in history to have 700 goals and 700 assists. Damn, captain. [Monumental, AP]
- Not bad company, that:
- Get the inside scoop on Logan Thompson’s awesome new Capitals’ masks. [Monumental]
- Happy 57th birthday to Joe Murphy, happy 39th to Jay Beagle, and raise a glass to the memory of Steve Atkinson, who would have been 76 today.
- Finally, as the Columbus Blue Jackets opened their home slate, they took a moment for a truly beautiful and moving tribute to Johnny Gaudreau: