Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: NYR 6, NJD 3 (4:58 video via NHL.com)
• Game Recap: Our Somewhat Agitating Rivals managed to solve Igor Shesterkin, but Pavel Buchnevich’s first career hat trick sparked the Rangers’ third consecutive victory in spite of that (CBS)
• Mollie Walker discusses the place in history that Buchnevich’s birthday hat trick holds (NY Post)
• Colin Stephenson ponders which players the Blueshirts will leave exposed in the upcoming expansion draft (Newsday)
• Stephenson also wonders that Chris Kreider’s empty net goal could be a spark for him to break out of his funk (Newsday)
• Robert Aitken Jr. offers his takeaways from yesterday’s game (LoHud)
• Tom Castro believes that Colin Blackwell’s play could make him an attractive option for the Seattle Kraken to choose in the expansion draft (The Hockey Writers)
• Brendan Azoff points out Igor Shesterkin’s quiet rise into becoming on of the league’s best goaltenders (The Hockey Writers)
• Media Availability: David Quinn,(3:16) Artemiy Panarin,(3:04) Mika Zibanejad,(3:14) and Pavel Buchnevich (1:28) (Official Team Site)/

Around the NHL:

• San Jose Sharks forward skated in his 1,767th NHL game last night to tie Gordie Howe’s record of games played (TSN)
• James O’Brien recaps the action from around the league yesterday (NBC Sports)
• The Vancouver Canucks will return to action today as they recover from their COVID-19 outbreak (Sportsnet)/