Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Mollie Walker discusses how Chris Kreider’s success on the power play wouldn’t be possible without stellar play from his teammates as well (NY Post)
• Walker also hears that in spite of issues with his country’s leadership, Artemiy Panarin still hopes to represent Russia at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing (NY Post)
• Vincent Mercogliano offers his observations from yesterday’s practice session (LoHud)
• Leen Amin highlights Ryan Lindgren’s performance as the best on the team of the past week (Elite Sports NY)
• Matt Grazel recaps the Blueshirts’ performance over the last few games (The Hockey Writers)
• Tom Castro details how the Rangers striking out on opportunities to bring Joe Sakic into the organization has cost them dearly over parts of multiple decades (The Hockey Writers)/

Around the NHL:

• Travis Yost breaks down why and how the Matt Murray era in Ottawa failed as miserably as it did (TSN)
• Adam Gretz lists the biggest surprises and disappointments of the season thus far (NBC Sports)/