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Thomas Tracy

Rangers fan banned from Madison Square Garden for life after slugging Lightning fan and good Samaritan

NEW YORK — He’s going to a penalty box — but it won’t be at MSG.

A hot-tempered Rangers fan from Staten Island was banned from Madison Square Garden for life Friday after he cold-clocked a Tampa Bay Lightning fan from Massachusetts — then punched a good Samaritan who tried to stop him from skating off, police and stadium officials said.

Wearing a red shirt with Artemi Panarin’s No. 10 emblazoned on the back, James Anastasio had just watched the Rangers fall to the Tampa Bay Lightning, 3-1, in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals Thursday night.

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