Your savory “the Caps are taking their goal differential straight to the postseason and you can kiss their collective asses” breakfast links:
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s playoff-clinching victory from us (QuickCap, Morning After), Vogs, Caps video (Carbery, Lindgren, Ovechkin, Oshie, Strome, recap), Flyers, NHL, AP, WaPo, THN, NoVa Caps, RMNB, Caps Outsider, and BSH.
- The Caps are back in the playoffs, baby! [NHL]
- And now…the Rangers await. [NHL, THN-NY, SNY, Lohud, NoVa Caps]
- Last night was quite a ride, with the Red Wings staging a late-game comeback that eliminated the Flyers shortly before Philadelphia pulled their goalie in the hopes of a regulation win. [THN]
- For that parting gift from Tortorella, the captain says thanks.
- A few leftovers from Monday night’s big win over the Bruins. [Rink, RMNB]
- Things went pretty well for the NHL this season when it comes to putting butts in seats. [AP]
- Happy 59th birthday to Kent Paynter, and happy 81st to Dennis Hextall – and raise a glass to the memory of Tommy Williams, who would have been 84 today.
- Finally…we’ll let the boys sing us all into the postseason.