Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: EDM 4, NYR 1 (5:17 video via NHL.com)
• Game Recap: The Blueshirts’ dreams of an undefeated season died on the vine yesterday afternoon, with a dismal third period sending them to their first loss of the season (NY Daily News)
• Larry Brooks heard what Kaapo Kakko had to say about scoring his first NHL goal (NY Post)
• Neil Best notes that the Rangers won’t blame their extended layoff for their sluggish performance against the Oilers (Newsday)
• Steve Paulus details what the Rangers have done with regards to Chris Kreider (Blue Line Station)
• Andrew Steele-Davis examines the Vegas Golden Knights and how they’re sizing up compared to New York (Blue Line Station)
• Tom Albano lists three players who might be moving on from Broadway by the time the trade deadline rolls around (The Hockey Writers)
• Rick Carpiniello refu$e$ to excu$e the Blue$hirt$ $hoddy play again$t the Oiler$ due to their week off (The Athletic)/

Around the NHL:

• Ottawa Senators’ forward Vladislav Namestnikov scored two goals in his Senators’ debut to propel his new team past the Tampa Bay Lightning by a 4-2 margin (TSN)
• Seven time Stanley Cup champion Ted Green passed away at age 79 (Sportsnet)
• Adam Gretz offers three things to take away from the New Jersey Devils’ five game losing streak to open the season (NBC Sports)
• Sam McCaig takes a look at some of the most eye popping numbers of the first week and a half of the 2019-20 campaign (The Hockey News)/