Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: VAN 4, NYR 1 (3:43 video via NHL.com)
• Game Recap: Rangers players’ tallied more game misconducts than goals against the Canucks, which went about as well as one could expect (USA Today)
• Colin Stephenson believes that Pavel Buchnevich has managed to turn around his season (Newsday)
• Dave Shapiro discusses the rumors surrounding a potential buyout of Kevin Shattenkirk’s contract (Blue Seat Blogs)
• Frank Curto thinks that next season could be a difficult one for Jeff Gorton to manage (Elite Sports NY)
• Rick Carpiniello note$ that plenty of player$ are $till in the running for the team’$ Extra Effort Award (The Athletic)
• Nicholas Zararis reminds fans that as many questionable decisions as Gorton may make, at least he’s not Dave Gettleman (Blue Line Station)
• Steve Paulus examines some nightmare scenarios as the draft lottery draws near (Blue Line Station)/

Around the NHL:

• The NHL Entry Draft Lottery is set to take place on April 9th, one night before the start of the Stanley Cup Playoffs (TSN)
• Elliotte Friedman authored another edition of 31 Thoughts (Sportsnet)
• Steven Ellis highlights how Petr Mrazek’s career resurgence as pushed the Carolina Hurricanes into the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race (The Hockey News)/