Your savory breakfast links:
- The Caps took four of the six points that were on the table last week, but did the individual efforts reflect those solid results? [Rink]
- Stepping back a bit for a look at the season so far, 20 games in. [Rink, WaPo, Capitals Voice, RMNB]
- News and notes from yesterday out at Kettler:
- In general. (Spoiler: Brooks Laich says he’s ready to go, and why would anyone doubt him?) [Monumental video (Trotz, Laich, Niskanen), WaPo, CSNW]
- With Mike Green a question mark, Jack Hillen gets ready to play. [WaPo, CSNW]
- Barry Trotz sounds like the communicator his predecessor was billed as. [Dump ‘n Chase]
- Breaking down the breaking out… [RMNB]
- … and breaking down a break down. [BrooksLaichyear]
- Karl Alzner and John Carlson talk iron men (personally, I dig the Mark 42). [CSNW]
- Fresh power rankings are out with only the hottest of takes. [THN, ESPN, The Score]
- The road to the NHL Winter Classic runs through Kettler. [WaPo]
- The Bears are having trouble scoring goals (must be that parent-affiliate synergy Trotz was talking about). [Patriot-News (with more from Hershey here, here and here)]
- Speaking of Hershey, they’re built from the cage out. [WaPo]
- Jakub Vrana is piling up points on the other side of the pond. [RMNB]
- Finally, happy 23rd birthday to Philipp Grubauer, the Bears’ best player last week.