Bantering Points: 3/26/17

The Rangers started their road trip off on the right foot earlier today, as Antti Raanta pitched a shutout en route to dethroning the Kings by a margin of 3-0. But with a second game in less than 24 hours tonight in Anaheim against the Ducks, the team will have little time to celebrate the victory, as Henrik Lundqvist will return from his lower-body injury tonight. Here are today's news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: NYR 3, LA 0 (4:16 Video via NHL.com)
• Game Preview: Henrik Lundqvist will get the start tonight as the team's intense playoff push continues (CBS)
• Steve Zipay recaps this morning's victory over Los Angeles (Newsday)
• Larry Brooks chatted with a number of the holdovers from New York's 2014 Stanley Cup Finals team and what memories they have of that soul-crushing defeat (NY Post)
• Justin Tasch heard from Antti Raanta about how even though his future is up in the air, the Finnish netminder is concentrated on winning in New York (NY Daily News)
• Scott Charles offers his thoughts from today's 3-0 victory from the Staples Center (Blueshirt Bulletin)
• Jess Rubenstein delivers another prospect update, with bits on Tyler Wall, Gabriel Fontaine, and more (Blueshirt Bulletin)
• Pat from BSB attempts to find some logic in Alain Vigneault's recent lineup decisions (Blue Seat Blogs)
• Timothy Haggerty assesses which players the Blueshirts are getting the best bang for their buck with (Blue Line Station)
• David Bruce projects what type of hockey players J.T. Miller and Kevin Hayes are capable of becoming (Blue Line Station)
• Michael Monti argues that New York should not actively try to back into the playoffs for the sake of playoff seeding (Blue Line Station)
• Postgame Notes: The Rangers are now one win away from tying their franchise record of 28 road wins (Official Team Site)
• Postgame Interviews: Antti Raanta,(2:06) Alain Vigneault,(2:17) J.T. Miller,(0:49) Derek Stepan,(0:39) and Dan Girardi (1:08) (Official Team Site)/

Around the NHL:

• Would the Islanders trade forward John Tavares over the summer rather than let him escape Brooklyn for nothing? (Sportsnet)
• Matt Larkin justifies the NHL's decision to not suspend Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby for slashing Ottawa Senators defenseman Marc Methot (The Hockey News)
• Ken Boehlke relays footage from the construction of the Vegas Golden Knights' practice facility (Sin Bin Vegas)/