{"id":348634,"date":"2025-12-16T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348634\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:51:08","slug":"lightnings-hagel-exits-with-apparent-injury-vs-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348634\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning&#8217;s Hagel exits with apparent injury vs. Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Star Lightning forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/brandon-hagel\/53071c21-dd13-465e-9962-cfa04e869801\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"53071c21-dd13-465e-9962-cfa04e869801\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brandon Hagel<\/a> left the game in the third period after appearing to take a Seth Jones elbow to the head and didn&#8217;t return.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel had logged 13:32 of ice time with two shots on goal before exiting what ended as a Panthers 5-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Ekblad&#8217;s elbow came after Hagel returned to the ice from a suspension of his own in the series. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/lightnings-hagel-suspended-one-game-for-hit-on-barkov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Tampa forward was given a one-game punishment<\/a> for laying a hit on Aleksander Barkov that left the Panthers captain injured. Barkov, however, returned to action for Game 3 of the series.<\/p>\n<p>After a 90-point 2024-25, Hagel has continued to score at a torrid pace this season. He entered Monday&#8217;s game with 18 goals, 31 points and a plus-19 rating in 31 games.<\/p>\n<p>If Hagel ends up being all right from Monday&#8217;s hit, he won&#8217;t have to wait long to see the Panthers again. Tampa Bay will head to Sunrise on Dec. 27 to write the next chapter in this budding Florida rivalry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Lightning forward Brandon Hagel left the game in the third period after appearing to take a Seth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-348634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}