Rangers' Artemi Panarin leaves team after Russian coach raises assault allegations
Rangers' Artemi Panarin leaves team after Russian coach raises assault allegations Matt Bonesteel, The Washington Post Feb. 22, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail New York Rangers winger Artemi Panarin, a finalist for the Hart Trophy given to the NHL's most valuable player in 2019-2020, has taken a leave of absence from the team after his former coach in Russia raised allegations that Panarin assaulted an 18-year-old woman in Latvia in December 2011. "Artemi vehemently and unequivocally denies any and all allegations in this fabricated story," the Rangers said Monday in a statement. "This is clearly ...