Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Larry Brooks hears that one game into his career, Kaapo Kakko’s stellar play has already been noticed by his teammates (NY Post)
• Brett Cyrgalis takes a look at the milestones Henrik Lundqvist reached in his season opening victory on Thursday (NY Post)
• Denis Gorman saw that after one game, David Quinn has opted to shuffle his defensive pairings (Newsday)
• Sean Hartnett writes that the Blueshirts’ horrid defensive performance was the main takeaway from their season opening victory (WFAN)
• Vincent Mercogliano relays word that Alexandar Georgiev is set to start tonight’s contest in Ottawa (LoHud)
• Joey Alfieri points out that Lundqvist’s victory was the 450th of his NHL career (NBC Sports)
• Justin Bonhard offers five takeaway’s from Thursday night’s win (The Hockey Writers)/

Around the NHL:

• The St. Louis Blues agreed to an eight year, $52 million contract extension with forward Brayden Schenn (St. Louis Game Time)
• Adam Gretz gives three takeaways from the New Jersey Devils’ season opening loss which saw them cough up a 4-0 lead with less than 21:00 of game time remaining and fall in a shootout (NBC Sports)
• Darren Dreger reports that interest is starting to pick up in Edmonton Oilers’ forward Jesse Puljujarvi (TSN)
• Andrew Berkshire examines the leaguewide increase in scoring and whether or not it will become a trend (Sportsnet)/