Here are today’s news and links:

Rangers News:

• Highlights: CAR 4, NYR 1 (4:55 video via NHL.com)
• Colin Stephenson recaps the Blueshirts’ soul crushing defeat to push their season to the brink (Newsday)
• Larry Brooks writes that another subpar effort by New York’s skaters has likely resulted in the official end of the Henrik Lundqvist era (NY Post)
• Greg Joyce heard from Marc Staal abut the uncharted territory the Rangers currently find themselves in (NY Post)
• Vincent Mercogliano ponders how David Quinn could tweak his lineup heading into Game 3 later tonight (LoHud)
• Steve Paulus examines the difficulty in deciding on a starting goaltender for tonight’s contest (Blue Line Station)
• Media Availability: David Quinn (7:04) and Chris Kreider and Marc Staal (3:27) (Official Team Site)/

Around the NHL:

• The league has announced that zero players have tested positive for the coronavirus in the last week since entering the bubbles (Sportsnet)
• Vancouver Canucks’ forward Michael Ferland was fined $5,000 for spearing Minnesota Wild forward Ryan Hartman during Game 1 of their play-in series (TSN)
• Matt Larkin argues that if Carolina Hurricanes’ forward Andrei Svechnikov can play as well as he did yesterday throughout the playoffs, his squad will emerge as a serious Stanley Cup contender (The Hockey News)/