Artemi Panarin, MSG achieved settlements with Rangers employees after sexual abuses

The New York Rangers striker Artemi Panarin and Madison Square Garden Sports, the company to which the team belongs, paid financial settlements to a Rangers employee last year, after claiming that Panarin sexually attacked her, according to an NHL source that informed the settlements and three more about her.

This woman left the organization in August 2024 after he reached the agreements, including non -disclosure and without admission of misconduct clauses. A comparison contract was achieved with Panarin and another was at MSG Sports. Several people in the organization were aware of the agreements and the circumstances in connection with their departure, and some of these people spoke The athlete On the condition that your identity is not disclosed because you are still working in hockey.

The alleged attack occurred in December 2023 during a road trip by Rangers, according to two Rangers sources that were informed about the claim. Panarin and the woman, who was a regular part of the team’s travel party, were in a meeting after the game in a hotel with about a dozen other players and employees. Panarin supposedly took her phone and said he would only give it back if she picked it up from his hotel room, the sources said. When she went to his hotel room to get her device, Panarin put her on the bed. She pushed him off, picked up her phone and left the room.

Neither Panarin nor his agent responded to an inquiry that requested a comment. An MSG sports spokesman said in an explanation enriched by e -mail: “The matter was solved.” The woman – The athlete Usually do not identify alleged victims of sexual misconduct without their consent – only said: “The matter was solved.”

The NHL wrote in an e -mail: “The association kept an external law firm for an independent investigation that the league had fully rated. We consider the matter close.”

There are no records of the woman who reports the incident from the law enforcement authorities. She was also not immediately aware of the team. But about three months after the alleged sexual attack, she informed the team as part of an examination of a separate incident. The team learned that the woman, whose fear of aircraft trips among the team members, had shared her anti-fear medicine with a player who had the same problem. It was made paid by the result of this investigation.

According to team sources, the female employee employee was treated unfairly, and she then informed the team about the alleged attack.

While the woman was still on vacation, a manager for MSG Sports invited a virtual meeting that included several employees of the Rangers office and a staff representative. According to several people, the participants did not talk to people about the situation of the woman on the call. According to a participant, the lawyer “completely excited us” because people spoke openly about the absence of the woman.

A person who worked for the Rangers at the time of conviction was the suddenness of the outcome of the woman made it a topic of conversation within the organization: “It is no secret when someone disappears.”

In August, MSG and Panarin reached comparative agreements with the woman, and her preoccupation with the team ended.

At the time of the disclosure of the woman, Panarin led the team with 43 goals and 102 points and fought the Hart Trophy, which was awarded to the most valuable NHL player to his team. The 33-year-old corkino, the native Russia, has prompted the team to do so every year since entering the club in 2019.

The league and the Rangers declined to say whether Panarin was exposed to a discipline.

In February 2021, Panarin assessed for personal reasons, according to the claims printed in a Russian newspaper, to observe from the team that he was involved in a physical examination of a woman in Latvia in 2021. The Rangers denied the allegations and called them a “intimidation tactic” that was used against him in response to his comments on Russian politics.

On Wednesday, the Rangers announced that Panarin was appointed MVP of the team for the 2024-25 season.

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