The Rangers striker, Artmi Panarin and MSG, the company that owns the team, paid financial settlements to a team employee last August after she claimed that Panarin sexually assaulted her in a hotel room in 2023, According to Atlético.
The woman, who was not identified in the report, reached agreements with Panarin and MSG Sports, which included non -dissemination and no admission of bad actions clauses, and then left the company.
An MSG spokesman told The Post: “The matter has been resolved.”
The woman also said: “The matter has been resolved,” according to Atlético.
The alleged assault tok placed in December 2023 duration a road trip of the Rangers, two team sources told The Outlet.
She states that Panarin tok her phone during a game after the game and he said he would only return it if she came to her hotel room.
When there, he alleged that Panarin covered her to bed before pushing, getting her phone and leaving.
On Wednesday, the Rangers announced that Panarin was appointed MVP of the team for the 2024-25 season.
The League and the Rangers refused to say if Panarin was disciplined with respect to the situation, according to Atlético.
The NHL said in an email: “The club retained an external law firm to conduct independent investigation, which the League was complete or we consider the closed matter.”
There is no record of the woman who reports the incident to the police and she did not immediately alert the team.
The employee felt that she was treated unfairly, according to the team’s sources, and then informed the team about the alleged assault.
In February 2021, Panarin moved away from the team for personal reasons after a Russian newspaper reported statements that he was involved in a physical altercation with a woman that year.
The Rangers denied the accusations at that time, calling them a “intimidation tactic” used against them in response to their comments on Russian politics.
Panarin and his agent did not respond to athletics for a request for comments.
