{"id":1186,"date":"2025-04-26T18:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/1186\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T18:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:10:11","slug":"brandon-hagel-receives-one-game-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/1186\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Hagel Receives One-Game Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Down 2-0 in their opening-round series to Florida, the Lightning will be without one of their top wingers for Saturday\u2019s game as the league announced<\/a> late Friday that Brandon Hagel<\/a> received a one-game suspension for his hit on Aleksander Barkov<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred just before the midway mark of the third period with Hagel receiving a major penalty for interference on the play but not a game misconduct.\u00a0 Barkov left the game and did not return; head coach Paul Maurice revealed Friday that the center hasn\u2019t been ruled out or in for tonight\u2019s contest.<\/p>\n

In the video<\/a> explaining the decision, the Department of Player Safety noted that supplemental discipline was warranted because Barkov was never in possession of the puck and therefore was not eligible to be checked.\u00a0 After the puck was well past the players, Hagel delivered \u201ca high, hard body check that makes some head contact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hagel made the case that he approached the play as if Barkov would eventually play the puck as it came to him, but the ruling stated that \u201cthe onus is on Hagel to ensure that the player he is hitting is eligible to be checked\u201d and that he intentionally delivered \u201can extremely forceful body check to an unsuspecting opponent with sufficient force.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is Hagel\u2019s first career suspension in 375 regular-season and 36 playoff games. However, it\u2019s not his first supplemental discipline for a playoff incident against the Panthers as he was fined for boarding Florida\u2019s Eetu Luostarinen<\/a> back in May 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Down 2-0 in their opening-round series to Florida, the Lightning will be without one of their top wingers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[91,97,57,5,863,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-1186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-aleksander-barkov","9":"tag-brandon-hagel","10":"tag-florida-panthers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-suspensions","13":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114405613552382756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}