Your savory breakfast of champions links:
- The Washington Capitals raised their Stanley Cup banner on Wednesday night with pomp, circumstance, and swagger. It was perfect. [RMNB, NHL, NBC Sports (and pics), WaPo (and again), Pre-Ceremony Hype Video, Celebration Montage Video, Banner Raising Video] Note: Still looking for the full videos of John Walton’s speech, player introductions, and Ted Leonsis’ speech. They were all terrific!
- Recaps and other assorted musings on last night’s statement, season-opening, shutout triumph from us, Vogs, (plus game notes), Caps video (Reirden, locker room), NHL, PHT, NBCSN (gamer, 4 reasons, inside the numbers), WaPo, AP, WashTimes, Frankovic, NoVa Caps (and again), RMNB, and from the home side, Boston Globe and SCoC.