{"id":848332,"date":"2026-08-08T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848332\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:00:11","slug":"tampa-bays-brandon-hagel-dishes-on-heated-rivalry-with-panthers-fighting-matthew-tkachuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848332\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay&#8217;s Brandon Hagel Dishes On Heated Rivalry With Panthers, Fighting Matthew Tkachuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEverything that goes on, I think its so good for the game,\u201d said Hagel. \u201cIt\u2019s bringing back that rivalry type of thing. You get in a fight, you get punched in the head, you get a broken nose or a black eye, whoop-de-doo, you\u2019re good and you can still play in the game type of thing. I think it\u2019s so good for hockey. I think they\u2019re an unbelievable team, I think they have that winning mentality, and we have that winning mentality too, and those are probably two of the best teams going at it three of four times a year and potentially in the playoffs. Obviously, no one wants to get injured, but I think whatever is going on there and everyone (knows) going into the game, its actually fun to be a part of and I think its so good for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEverything that goes on, I think its so good for the game,\u201d said Hagel. \u201cIt\u2019s bringing back that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-848332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}