GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Artemi Panarin was fined $5,000 Saturday for throwing his glove at Boston forward Brad Marchand in Friday’s 5-2 Rangers win over the Bruins at TD Garden, and the Rangers forward said he lost control of his emotions when Marchand said something negative to him about his country, Russia.
"I didn’t really understand what he said in the moment, because we had a little conversation — a little conversation with bad energy,’’ Panarin said in English without help from a translator following the Rangers’ short practice at their MSG Training Center. "Then I heard something about Russia in that moment.