Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: NYR 6, CAR 2 (4:49 video via NHL.com)
• Game Recap: The Rangers and Hurricanes played a tight first 40:00 of hockey before the Blueshirts pulled away on the back of a four goal effort from Artemiy Panarin (CBS)
• Larry Brooks notes that after spending last night’s victory as a healthy scratch, Vitali Kravtsov is looking more and more like a future trade chip as opposed to a core piece of the Blueshirts (NY Post)
• Colin Stephenson discusses how the addition of Vladimir Tarasenko has sparked both of New York’s power play units (Newsday)
• Vincent Mercogliano offers his takeaways from the Rangers’ latest victory (LoHud)/

Around the NHL:

• Vegas Golden Knights’ goaltender Logan Thompson is expected to be out on a week to week basis with a lower body injury (NBC Sports)
• The Los Angeles Kings retired Dustin Brown’s #23 and unveiled a statue of their former captain prior to last night’s game (TSN)/