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Artemi Panarin, Rangers have special plans for his Columbus return

Henrik Lundqvist was saying he was certain Artemi Panarin’s return to Columbus for Thursday night’s match against the Blue Jackets, would become a topic of pregame conversation among his teammates.

“I’m sure it is going to be a very special game for him, so of course there will be a few words before the game,” said Lundqvist, who will serve as Alexandar Georgiev’s backup. “You want to be at your best as a team for him. It’s that way whenever you have a player go back to a place where he was for such a long time.”

Panarin, by the way, played only two years with Columbus.