Your savory breakfast links:
- Learn more about Terik Parascak, the young forward selected by the Caps in Friday night’s opening round of the draft. [Rink, THW, Monumental, THN]
- Brian MacLellan, Ross Mahoney, and the whole front office team was busy yesterday from the floor of the Sphere, making seven more picks… [Caps, video (MacLellan, Mahoney), Monumental (and again), THN, THW]
- Cole Hutson. [Rink, Caps video, Monumental, THN, RMNB, NoVa Caps, Daily Faceoff]
- Leon Muggli. [Rink, Caps video, RMNB, NoVa Caps]
- Ilya Protas. [Rink, Caps video, Monumental, THN, RMNB, NoVa Caps]
- Eriks Mateiko. [Rink, Caps video, RMNB, NoVa Caps]
- Nicholas Kempf. [Rink, Caps video, RMNB, NoVa Caps]
- Petr Sikora. [Rink, RMNB, NoVa Caps]
- Miroslav Satan. [Rink, Caps video, RMNB, NoVa Caps]
- …and swinging three trades, two involving players. The first sent Beck Malenstyn to Buffalo for the second-round pick used to select Hutson. [Rink, Caps (and Vogs), Sportsnet, Score, DBtB, S&S]
- The second sent a couple of picks to Vegas for former Stingrays goaltender Logan Thompson. [Rink, Caps (and more from Vogs, plus video), WaPo, Monumental, LVRJ, NHL, ESPN, LWoS, S&S, RMNB, NoVa Caps, KoI, SinBin]
- Thompson learned about the trade when he woke up yesterday morning, but was still a good guy and took part in a signing event for Vegas fans at the draft. [NHL, Yahoo]
- The Caps were one of a small group of super active teams yesterday, as MacLellan continues to reshape this team on the fly. [NBC Sports]
- After all of this, all the moves and draft picks…the Caps are still not done. Buckle up. [THN]
- NHL bloodlines were everywhere yesterday, with many teams drafting plenty of familiar names – including three who pulled on the Capitals’ crest. [NHL]
- Speaking of which, this was the cutest moment between the Brothers Protas:
- Just a nice, quiet start to the weekend. Everyone rest up… free agency opens tomorrow, development camp kicks off the day after!