Your savory breakfast links:
- Capitals blueline prospect Alex Alexeyev scored two goals in the first six minutes of his KHL game yesterday. [NoVa Caps]
- How did Garnet Hathaway fare in his first season in Washington? [S+S]
- In divisional news, New York Islanders defenseman Johnny Boychuk announced his retirement from hockey yesterday as a result of an eye injury he sustained earlier this season. [ESPN, NHL, Lighthouse Hockey]
- There is still time before hockey returns (mostly because no one knows exactly when that will happen) but it isn’t too early to make a few predictions about Ilya Samsonov’s first season as a starting goalie.