{"id":458257,"date":"2026-02-06T20:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458257\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:05:07","slug":"lightnings-douglas-fined-by-nhl-as-aggressor-in-battle-of-florida-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458257\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning&#8217;s Douglas fined by NHL as aggressor in Battle of Florida brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the fists no longer flying in Florida, fines are the next order of business.<\/p>\n<p>In what ended up as a 6-1 win for the Lightning in the Battle of Florida on Thursday, all the focus was on a massive brawl that resulted in 13 penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions boiled over between the bitter rivals early in the third, when Matthew Tkachuk shouldered Lightning winger\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/nikita-kucherov\/92bee224-bf40-4b76-b8c2-1f690bbc1f22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikita Kucherov<\/a>\u00a0to the ice, and an immediate line brawl broke out.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas was not among the players immediately penalized.<\/p>\n<p>Florida head coach Paul Maurice was also ejected in the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is so good for the game,&#8221; said Hagel post-game, per\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wyshynski\/status\/2019628086258733329?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN&#8217;s Greg Wyshynski<\/a>. &#8220;If you look back in the day, the rivalries were insane. It needs to get back into the game. It\u2019s good for the players, shows a lot about the character of guys on your team. They\u2019re fun. They\u2019re playoff games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A total of 124 penalty minutes were handed out on the sequence, and Thursday\u2019s matchup featured 147 PIMs overall in the final regular-season matchup between the state rivals.<\/p>\n<p>In a pre-season meeting in October, the Panthers and Lightning combined for an absurd 322 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the fists no longer flying in Florida, fines are the next order of business. In what ended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-458257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458257","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=458257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}