Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: NYR 4, WSH 1 (5:05 video via NHL.com)
• Game Recap: The Blueshirts cruised to a victory on the back of a strong performance out of Igor Shesterkin to put more ground between them and their division rivals from Washington (CBS)
• Mollie Walker sees New York’s schedule heavy with divisional games as an opportunity for them to control their playoff destiny (NY Post)
• Walker also points outs Morgan Barron’s efforts filling in for Filip Chytil last night (NY Post)
• Vincent Mercogliano offers his takeaways from last night’s victory at Madison Square Garden (LoHud)
• Tom Castro reminisces on Alexei Kovalev’s time with the Blueshirts (The Hockey Writers)

Around the NHL:

• The Nashville Predators retired Pekka Rinne’s #35 prior to their contest against the Dallas Stars, making him the first former player in franchise history to have his number retired (TSN)
• Fans attending Winnipeg Jets home games will need to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 to be granted entry until April 30th, even as the province of Manitoba is set to end their vaccine passport program on March 1st (Sportsnet)