Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Larry Brooks offers his take on the two year, $9 million the Rangers signed Ryan Strome to (NY Post)
• Steve Paulus highlights the strength of teams in the Atlantic Division, and why that means the Blueshirts will be hard pressed to make it to the playoffs (Blue Line Station)
• Chris Hanold Jr. noticed that Tony DeAngelo’s activity on Election Day may have resulted in DeAngelo being strongly encouraged to delete his Twitter account (Blue Line Station)
• Andrew Steele-Davis grades Strome’s extension (Puck Prose)
• Brian Abate believes that the 2020-21 campaign will be a critical one for Pavel Buchnevich (The Hockey Writers)
• Rick Carpineillo di$cu$$e$ what $trome’$ exten$ion mean$ a$ the Blue$hirt$ move forward (The Athletic)/

Around the NHL:

• Travis Yost urges caution against the notion that teenagers who struggle in their first NHL season will eventually “figure it out” and reach their potential (TSN)
• Justin Bourne lists ten statistical oddities from the previous season (Sportsnet)
• The Columbus Blue Jackets agreed to a three year, $8.4 million contract extension with defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov (Jackets Cannon)/