Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Larry Brooks lists seven candidates to succeed David Quinn as New York’s head coach (NY Post)
• Brooks also hears that of those seven candidates, former Vegas Golden Knights’ coach Gerard Gallant is the early front runner for the position (NY Post)
• Vincent Mercogliano has nine candidates in mind to take over for Quinn (LoHud)
• Brian Abate reminisces on Ryan Lindgren’s rise from being a throw-in to the Rick Nash trade to one of the key cogs on the Blueshirts’ blue line (The Hockey Writers)
• $hayna Goldman reflect$ on how Quinn balanced developing the team’$ young player$ with $triving for the optimal on-ice re$ult$ throughout hi$ time in the organization (The Athletic)
• Media Availability: Mika Zibanejad,(11:05) Adam Fox,(9:34) and Brendan Smith (4:37) (Official Team Site)/

Around the NHL:

• Buffalo Sabres’ general manager Kevyn Adams addressed the media and vocalized his vision for righting the ship in Buffalo, and doing so with players that want to be there (TSN)
• Geoff Baker reports that the Seattle Kraken have made their first signing in franchise history, agreeing to an entry level contract with forward Luke Henman (Seattle Times)
• Adam Gretz offers his take on which teams’ trade deadline moves have helped the most (NBC Sports)/