Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: WSH 5, NYR 4 (5:00 video via NHL.com)
• Game Recap: David Quinn’s return to the bench brought with it 45 minutes worth of New York’s flattest effort of the season, and a late rally attempt wasn’t enough to win (CBS)
• Colin Stephenson heard from David Quinn and his first meeting with the media since battling COVID-19 (Newsday)
• Stephenson also notes that while the Rangers’ attempted rally can be a building block moving forward, the most important thing to take away from yesterday’s game was zero points in the standings (Newsday)
• Vincent Mercogliano examines the short and long term impacts on Brendan Lemieux’s departure from New York (LoHud)
• Mercogliano also offered his takeaways from yesterday’s defeat in Washington (LoHud)
• Media Availability: Colin Blackwell,(3:14) David Quinn,(4:43) and Adam Fox (1:13) (Official Team Site)

Around the NHL:

• Adam Gretz recaps the action from around the league yesterday (NBC Sports)
• Due to the recent COVID-19 outbreak around the Montreal Canadiens’ the regular season has been extended to May 11th to get all of their games played (Sportsnet)
• Montreal’s newly acquired forward from the Buffalo Sabres, Eric Staal, is excited to join his new team (TSN)