Rangers News:

Peter Botte writes that the Blueshirts must be in desperation mode ahead of tonight’s final matchup of the season with the Islanders (NY Post)
Neil Best notes that Morgan Barron is likely to make his NHL debut tonight (Newsday)
Jim Bay believes that the Blueshirts will need to learn how to win games against quality teams in order to succeed next season (Empire Sports Media)
Rick Carpineillo highlight$ how even if Barron play$ well after hi$ recall, it won’t an$wer the many question$ that plague the team a$ of now (The Athletic)
Media Availability: Morgan Barron,(4:03) Brendan Smith,(1:51) and David Quinn (3:31) (Official Team Site)

Around the NHL:

After paying the final bit of their $650 million expansion fee, the Seattle Kraken have officially joined the NHL as the league’s 32nd team (Sportsnet)
Former Atlanta Thrashers’ forward Ilya Kovalchuk mutually terminated his KHL contract with Avangard Omsk, and will look to make yet another return to the NHL (TSN)
Philadelphia Flyers’ goaltender Carter Hart will miss the remainder of the season with a sprained MCL (NHL.