EAST MEADOW, N.Y. — Artemi Panarin is already thinking about Monday night, about being back at Madison Square Garden as a visitor, about playing against his former teammates, about the reaction he’ll get, about what will be on the video they show if one is shown.
“I wish it was going to be next year, but I’ve got to deal with that pretty soon,” Panarin said Thursday.
Panarin returns to the building he called home for 6 1/2 seasons on Monday when his new team, the Los Angeles Kings, plays his old team, the New York Rangers. His New York homecoming comes less than six weeks after the Rangers traded him to the Kings on Feb. 4.
He still has one game to play before he returns to MSG; against the New Jersey Devils at…