Your savory breakfast links:
- The briefly exciting but ultimately fruitless “Ilya Kovalchuk as a Capital” experiment is at an end, as the forward has signed a two-year deal in the KHL. [NHL, PHT, The Score, ESPN, Sportsnet]
- With captain Kirby Dach out with a wrist injury, Connor McMichael moved up to wear the A for Team Canada at the World Juniors. [The Score]
- He then followed that up by scoring the crucial 16th goal in a lopsided win over Germany (and adding two assists earlier in the game).