Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Larry Brooks floats the possibility of Jacob Trouba becoming the next captain (NY Post)
• Brooks also heard that Brett Howden’s faceoff prowess has earned him a temporary spot on the team’s second powerplay unit over Filip Chytil (NY Post)
• Colin Stephenson hears that after Saturday’s dominant victory, David Quinn will be trotting out the same lineup for tonight’s contest against New Jersey (Newsday)
• Brian Abate highlights the strong start Pavel Buchnevich has gotten off to (The Hockey Writers)
• Jim Bay cautions against looking past Lindy Ruff’s Devils team that is yet to be defeated in regulation (Empire Sports Media)
• Rick Carpineillo write$ that although the Blue$hirt$ are lacking in the grit department, that weakne$$ will be remedied $ooner rather than later (The Athletic)
• Media Availability: David Quinn,(6:10) Jacob Trouba,(4:01) and Jack Johnson (3:22) (Official Team Site)/

Around the NHL:

• Kirill Kaprizov,(MIN) Travis Konecny,(PHI) and Steven Stamkos(TB) have been named the league’s three starts of the week (NHL.com)
• The New Jersey Devils claimed goaltender Aaron Dell off waivers from the Toronto Maple Leafs (TSN)
• Five players across the league were added to the league’s COVID Protocol list yesterday (Sportsnet)/