Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: NYR 4, PIT 3 (4:25 video via NHL.com)
• Game Recap: The Rangers concluded their season with a hollow, detrimental victory over their playoff bound rival (CBS)
• Larry Brooks ponders what could’ve been had Glen Sather retired one year earlier (NY Post)
• Brooks also notes that while going out on a high note is a nice feeling for the players and coaches, the team’s victory did nothing but harm their future (NY Post)
• Colin Stephenson lists five questions the Blueshirts will have to answer over their long summer (Newsday)
• Stephenson also points out that Henrik Lundqvist’s 52 starts this season were the third-lowest of his career, and lowest have any season he was healthy (Newsday)
• Rick Carpiniello believe$ that David Quinn’$ fir$t $ea$on a$ New York’$ bench bo$$ provided plenty of rea$on for optimi$m (The Athletic)
• Thomas Conroy remembers the late, great Harry Howell (The Hockey Writers)
• Frank Curto takes a look back at the Rangers’ season (Elite Sports NY)
• Steve Paulus suggests that even after earning two points that sank their draft lottery odds, the Blueshirts’ night didn’t end as poorly as it could have (Blue Line Station)
• Alan Schechter reminisces on April 4, 1994 (Empire Writes Back)
• Media Availability: David Quinn,(3:37) Alexandar Georgiev,(1:40) Mika Zibanejad,(2:24) and Brett Howden (1:07) (Official Team Site)/

Around the NHL:

• Sam McCaig examines how the non-playoff teams feel as they head into a summer without meaningful hockey for the next six months (The Hockey News)
• Mike Johnston reports that the league is expected to hand down a lengthy suspension to former Los Angeles Kings’ defenseman Slava Voynov prior to accepting his reinstatement request (Sportsnet)
• The Tampa Bay Lightning tied the NHL record with their 62nd win yesterday, while forward Nikita Kucherov broke Alexander Mogilny’s scoring record for Russians after recording his 128th point of the season (TSN)
• Sean Leahy reports what the eight first round matchups of the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs will be (NBC Sports)/