Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: NYR 5, FLA 2 (5:05 video via NHL.com)
• Game Recap: Another multi-goal effort from Chris Kreider along with another Herculean performance from Igor Shesterkin carried the Blueshirts past the Panthers and earned them a season series win against Florida (CBS)
• Larry Brooks argues that Alexis Lafreniere’s recent emergence allows the Blueshirts to be more open minded about how they want to approach the trade deadline (NY Post)
• Mollie Walker pinpoints Shesterkin’s save that led directly to the game winning goal as a key moment of last night’s game (NY Post)
• Colin Stephenson notes that even though last night’s win was the 300th of Gerard Gallant’s career as a head coach, the Blueshirts’ bench boss didn’t think much of it (Newsday)
• Vincent Mercogliano offered his thoughts on last night’s victory (LoHud)

Around the NHL:

• James O’Brien recaps the action from around the league yesterday (NBC Sports)
• Elliotte Friedman authors another edition of 32 Thoughts (Sportsnet)
• The Arizona Coyotes have made it known that they are willing to use their excess cap space to help other teams facilitate trades in exchange for future assets (TSN)