Your savory breakfast of champions links:
- The first full day of free agency passed relatively quietly for the Caps with the team announcing some depth signings:
- Welcome to new guy Nic Dowd, a right-shot center/wing, signed for one year and $650K. [Rink, NHL, WaPo, NBCSW, RMNB, NoVa Caps]
- Point -
Nic Dowd was a better on-ice contributor than Jay Beagle last year. #Canucks paid a 2.5M and three year premium for a below-replacement level player's intangibles pic.