Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: NYR 5, VGK 1 (4:51 video via NHL.com)
• Game Recap: The Rangers and Golden Knights entered the third period tied up at 1, but New York’s offense exploded in the final frame to turn the closely contested game into a rout (CBS)
• Mollie Walker notes that for as well as Kaapo Kakko has played overall this season, his goal last night was his first in more than two weeks (NY Post)
• Walker also points out the Kakko wasn’t the only young player to contribute to the victory as both Filip Chytil and Alexis Lafreniere scored at 5 on 5 (NY Post)
• Vincent Mercogliano offers his takeaways from New York’s road victory late last night (LoHud)
• Scott Blair cites the need for the Blueshirts to learn from what made them successful during last spring’s playoff run and continue to build upon it (The Hockey Writers)/

Around the NHL:

• Buffalo Sabres’ forward Tage Thompson scored five goals during his team’s 9-4 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets (NBC Sports)
• Alex Ovechkin scored twice during the Washington Capital’s 4-1 over the Philadelphia Flyers to pull within 99 goals of Wayne Gretzky’s all time record (Sportsnet)/