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Artemi Panarin hurls glove at Bruins’ Brad Marchand in heated moment

Who throws his glove?

Artemi Panarin does!

It's unclear what set off Artemi Panarin's glove-throwing moment.
It’s unclear what set off Artemi Panarin’s glove-throwing moment. Screengrab/ESPN

The Rangers superstar forward was caught chucking his glove at Bruins pest extraordinaire Brad Marchand in the closing moments of the Rangers’ 5-2 win in Boston on Friday.

It’s not clear exactly what set Panarin off, and it doesn’t seem like Marchand is telling.

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“We were talking about what we had for Thanksgiving dinner,” Marchand told reporters. “He didn’t like what I ate.”

Panarin and Marchand are two of the best left-wingers in the NHL, and were debated as such before this season. Perhaps this was a situation where Panarin merely wanted to assert his dominance.