Your savory breakfast links:
- With a long layoff before the season starts, the Caps are mixing things up and starting the season on the links. [WaPo]
- The NHL continues to make absolutely ludicrous, incorrect, backsliding decisions – the latest of which is to ban the use of Pride tape during warmups. Garbage. [AP, ESPN]
- Evgeny Kuznetsov is ready to put aside all of the drama, the nonsense, the disappointment from years’ past, and just play some hockey. [THN]
- Ranking the Metropolitan Division and the Capitals’ place in said division, as a team with much to prove this season. [THN]
- After a minor offseason procedure – and a longer-than-usual offseason in which to recover – T.J. Oshie is feeling younger than his 36 years of age. [NoVa Caps]
- Because of that, is he set for a bounceback season? [S&S]
- Monumental Sports Network has rolled out a Direct-to-Consumer subscription service, featuring live games and conceivably protecting against the turbulent world of cable/streaming services. [Caps]
- Matthew Phillips making the opening night roster is a big surprise… [AP]
- …and that big surprise comes in a teeny, light – like historically light – package. [RDS]
- Taking a look at some of the other surprises on the team’s opening night roster (or at least the one we’ve seen, as it is subject to change later today). [THW]
- The WTOP crew previews the 2023-24 season. [WTOP]
- Wrapping up the first week of hockey for the Caps organization’s handful of college kids. [NoVa Caps]
- What would a solid 2023-24 campaign from Connor McMichael look like? [S&S]
- Happy 57th birthday to Shawn Chambers, and happy 49th to Jason Arnott!
- Finally, a mic’d up Tom Wilson is as delightful – and leadership-y – as one would hope: