Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Brett Cyrgalis highlights Filip Chytil and Vitali Kravtsov as the two surprise cuts made yesterday (NY Post)
• Vincent Mercogliano heard from Jeff Gorton as he attempted to explain the roster decisions made (LoHud)
• Sean Hartnett details why sending Chytil down to AHL Hartford was actually the right decision (WFAN)
• Justin Rutherford examines where Igor Shesterkin can go from here now that he’s set to begin the 2019-20 campaign in the AHL (Blue Seat Blogs)
• Steve Paulus believes that the Blueshirts’ salary cap situation and early season schedule were deciding factors in the team’s roster decisions (Blue Line Station)
• Rick Carpiniello make$ ten prediction$ for the upcoming $ea$on (The Athletic)
• Michael Obernauer discusses how yesterday’s roster cuts kickstart the next era of Blueshirts’ hockey (Official Team Site)
• Media Availability: David Quinn,(6:22) Jeff Gorton,(9:04) and Lias Andersson, Libor Hajek, and Adam Fox (4:02) (Official Team site)/

Around the NHL:

• The New York Islanders placed Thomas Hickey, Tanner Fritz and Josh Ho-Sang on waivers as they made roster cuts (Lighthouse Hockey)
• Adam Gretz points out which of last season’s playoff teams could be in danger of missing out on the dance this spring (NBC Sports)
• Geoff Baker reports that the NHL’s Seattle franchise has officially been awarded an AHL affiliate to be based in Palm Springs, CA (Seattle Times)
• Josh Yoshe of The Athletic states that the Pittsburgh Penguins have notified defenseman Jack Johnson that he is likely to be moved in the coming days (TSN)
• Mark Spector writes that the Edmonton Oilers are looking to make this season a change of pace from the last several (Sportsnet)/