Rangers News:

Larry Brooks floats the possibility of Jacob Trouba becoming the next captain (NY Post)
Brooks also heard that Brett Howden’s faceoff prowess has earned him a temporary spot on the team’s second powerplay unit over Filip Chytil (NY Post)
Colin Stephenson hears that after Saturday’s dominant victory, David Quinn will be trotting out the same lineup for tonight’s contest against New Jersey (Newsday)
Brian Abate highlights the strong start Pavel Buchnevich has gotten off to (The Hockey Writers)
Jim Bay cautions against looking past Lindy Ruff’s Devils team that is yet to be defeated in regulation (Empire Sports Media)
Rick Carpineillo write$ that although the Blue$hirt$ are lacking in the grit department, that weakne$$ will be remedied $ooner rather than later (The Athletic)
Media Availability: David Quinn,(6:10) Jacob Trouba,(4:01) and Jack Johnson (3:22) (Official Team Site)

Around the NHL:

Kirill Kaprizov,(MIN) Travis Konecny,(PHI) and Steven Stamkos(TB) have been named the league’s three starts of the week (NHL.