Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Brett Cyrgalis chatted with Nikolai Bobrov about Igor Shesterkin’s performance in the KHL and his future in the organization (NY Post)
• Colin Stephesnon highlights New York’s lack of offensive production as a major reason for their current position in the playoff race (Newsday)
• Frank Curto argues that in spite of losing more games than they’d like, the Rangers’ rebuild as progressing according to plan (Elite Sports NY)
• The BSB staff offered up their Christmas wish lists for the Blueshirts (Blue Seat Blogs)
• Nicholas Zararis wrote a guide on how to deal with three types of hockey fans you may have encountered yesterday, or any other gathering of family, friends, or strangers for that matter (Blue Line Station)
• Steve Paulus examines the conundrum of rooting for the team to return to the playoffs versus being on Team Tank (Blue Line Station)/

Around the NHL:

• PHT continued their Year in Review by looking back at the best moments of 2018 (NBC Sports)
• Ryan Kennedy reminisced on some of the top five of various categories for World Junior Championships of years’ past (The Hockey News)
• Steve Kournianos discusses they hype surrounding potential #1 overall selection of the 2019 Entry Draft, Jack Hughes (The Sporting News)/