Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: NYR 3, BUF 2 (5:00 video via NHL.com)
• Game Recap: Dustin Tokarski stood on his head once again and kept the Sabres in it, but the Blueshirts prevailed in overtime (CBS)
• Larry Brooks reports that prior to being dealt out of New York, Brendan Lemieux requested a trade to a team that would give him more playing time (NY Post)
• Brooks also believes that last night’s victory has vaulted the Rangers back into the playoff race (NY Post)
• Colin Stephenson discusses Brendan Smith’s bounce back season (Newsday)
• Stephenson also pointed out that Ryan Strome extended his point streak to eleven games during last night’s victory (Newsday)
• Vincent Mercogliano offers his takeaways from New York’s victory at KeyBank Arena (LoHud)
• Brian Abate examines Igor Shesterkin’s strong play since returning from his latest injury (The Hockey Writers)
• $hayna Goldman dive$ into the number$ behind Mika Zibanejad’$ recent hot $treak (The Athletic)
• Media Availability: Ryan Strome,(3:59) Filip Chytil,(3:07) Igor Shesterkin,(3:53) and David Quinn (5:15) (Official Team Site)

Around the NHL:

• James O’Brien recaps the action from around the league last night (NBC Sports)
• Columbus Blue Jackets’ forward Patrik Laine is in the midst of a historic cold streak, but there are ways for him to bust put of it (Sportsnet)
• The Vancouver Canucks have postponed all games through April 6th as a result of COVID Protocols (TSN)