Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: NYR 1, DET 0 (5:02 video via NHL.com)
• Larry Lage recaps the team’s victory from Little Caesars Arena (NY Daily News)
• Larry Brooks believes that Pavel Buchnevich may not be long for Broadway (NY Post)
• Brett Cyrgalis notes that Mika Zibanejad is once again safe from the team’s intentions of moving everything not nailed down to the floor (NY Post)
• Cyrgalis also relays word that Chris Kreider’s injury isn’t one that merit concern moving forward (NY Post)
• Tom Castro details why the Blueshirts can’t afford to move on from Marc Staal just yet (The Hockey Writers)
• Ed Stein doesn’t see trading away Alexandar Georgiev as a necessity in the immediate future (Empire Writes Back)
• Rick Carpinello $ugge$t$ that the Ranger$ mu$t make an effort to retain Chri$ Kreider for the long term (The Athletic)/

Around the NHL:

• Adam Gretz takes a look at how a Metropolitan Division team is likely to be on the wrong end of the league’s asinine divisional playoff format this spring (NBC Sports)
• Eric Francis saw the goalie fight between Cam Talbot and Mike Smith as another example of the lack of love lust in the Battle of Alberta (Sportsnet)
• The Montreal Canadiens demoted forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi, the 3rd overall section of the 2018 Entry Draft, to AHL Laval (TSN)/