Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: NYR 4, PIT 3 (4:52 video via NHL.com)
• Brett Cyrgalis recaps last night’s 4-3 victory from PPG Paints Arena (NY Post)
• Sean Hartnett sees the three division games on the schedule as a chance for the Rangers to climb up the standings this week (CBS)
• The New York Rangers franchise is worth an estimated $1,500,000,000 dollars, holding their place as the most valuable NHL franchise since last year (Newsday)
• Brandon Spreckels examines whether the team should be buyers or sellers at the trading deadline (Elite Sports NY)
• Dave Shapiro wonders when some of New York’s young guns in Hartford will become better options than veteran retreads like Steven Kampfer, Marc Staal, and Brendan Smith (Blue Seat Blogs)
• David Bruce thinks that Pavel Buchnevich is following in the footsteps of Tampa Bay Lightning superstar forward Nikita Kucherov (Blue Line Station)
• John Williams classifies this week’s three divisional games as must win contests (Blue Line Station)
• Media Availability: Alain Vigneault,(2:40) J.T. Miller,(1:12) Ryan McDonagh,(1:37) and Ondrej Pavelec (2:06) (Official Team Site)/

Around the NHL:

• Scott Billeck reports that former Rangers Marian Gaborik had a career night, scoring his 400th NHL goal en route to pushing the Los Angeles Kings past the Minneosta Wild by a 5-2 margin (NBC Sports)
• Former Ranger Derek Dorsett (who was traded for Marian Gaborik) penned a latter saying you shouldn’t feel sorry about the way his career ended (Sportsnet)
• Frank Seravalli examines what the IOC’s decision to ban Russia from the 2018 Olympics in South Korea means for Hockey Canada (TSN)/