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Sabres Links: Hitchcock re-ups, Rangers rout Lightning, will the next coach feel like a second choice?

Everyone knows the Sabres wanted Mike Babcock, but should the next Sabres coach really care at all about that?

Gleason: Coach search puts Sabres in tough spot [Buffalo News]
Hamilton: With all the Sabres young talent, don't forget Nicholas Baptiste [WGR 550]/

Ken Hitchcock and the Blues agreed to a one-year extension [TSN]
The Rangers routed the Lightning to force a Game 7 [NHL.com]
Devan Dubnyk is talking with the Wild about a new deal, and could get paid upwards of $4 million [Minneapolis Star Tribune]/