Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: OTT 4, NYR 1 (4:59 video via NHL.com)
• Game Recap: Another day, another pitiful effort against a bottom feeding team for David Quinn’s squad (NY Daily News)
• Larry Brooks notes the team’s amount of regulation wins as a positive to build on moving forward (NY Post)
• Brett Cyrgalis reiterates how last night’s loss prevented Henrik Lundqvist from continuing his rise up the all-time wins list (NY Post)
• Colin Stephenson heard from David Quinn about Brendan Lemieux, Artemiy Panarin, and more (Newsday)
• Steve Paulus ponders if the Blueshirts will be buyers or sellers as the trade deadline draws near (Blue Line Station)
• Paulus also pondered if coach Quinn was caling out anybody in particular with his post-game comments (Blue Line Station)
• Reminiscing on the one, the only, Mr. Ranger, Rod Gilbert (The Hockey Writers)

Around the NHL:

• Sean Leahy hears from NHL on NBC commentator Eddie Olczyk about his fight with cancer, and being named the league’s Hockey Fights Cancer ambassador (NBC Sports)
• Darren Dreger hears that a plethora of teams navigating around LTIR has caused the trade market to dry up for now (TSN)
• Jeff Blair believes that the Toronto Maple Leafs decision to move on from Mike Babcock has put Brendan Shanahan back into the organizational spotlight (Sportsnet)