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Anthony Cirelli Stands Up For Brandon Hagel



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2025 – 2026 Season
Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Pittsburgh Penguins
1/13/2026

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  1. Team canada roster just slowly getting chipped away good thing all canadians are sweats

  2. I'm guessing Clifton legit does not like Hagel. Looking through search results this isn't the first time he completely lit him up lol.

  3. Moron announcer: He put himself in a bad position.
    Reality check: Hagel was facing the boards for a long time.
    Whatever they pay these idiots is definitely not for their brains or tether to reality.

  4. Hagel saw the hit coming and didn't protect himself. Players are getting too comfortable with the general lack of hitting in the league.

  5. The new way to start a fight if that's your plan is to lay a dirty hit and you get your wish. Guys hit like this to start a fight on purpose. League wide.

  6. wow, if i was coop i'd grab a damn ipad from the bench and be walking to the nearest official for a lil chat with frame by frame explanation as to how he's not ejected…?

  7. Somebody at the league must really hate hagel, I cant think of any other explanation for what he has gone through this season. How thats not 5 and a 10…. man the zerbras are in playoff shape already.

  8. It all worked out after the 2nd review. They both got the 5 minutes for fighting. Tampa ended up with a 3 minute PP in which they did nothing.

  9. The hit was borderline but hagel didn’t play that well and shoulda known what was to come

  10. Cirelli got a misconduct for punching while on the ice and the refs were trying to stop it. Xhekai was given a misconduct tonight for punching mcilrath 3 times in the back of the head while the refs were trying to break a fight up. Bottom line, if you keep fighting when the refs stepped in, you are getting a 10

  11. That was a textbook boarding/checking from behind. Hagel was all numbers. It wasnt a quick turn around.

    Dirty hit for sure.

  12. A five major without a GM or 10 is not news. The fact that Clifton did not get five for the fight puzzled me. I checked the score sheet and it turns out Clifton did get five major for boarding and another five for fighting.

  13. Everyone wins when Hagel gets hurt and Cirelli gets his ass whooped 😂😂😂😂

  14. As a neutral fan, they botched the entire call here. I can accept the boarding not having a missconduct attached, but imo it should have; he had the numbers lined up for a long time before deciding to follow through with the boarding. I hope he got 5 min for fighting as well. Instigating is questionable, cause it’s a response to a massive hit that was called for a penalty, usually there isn’t instigating for that but whatever. Where does Cirelli’s misconduct even come from, thin air?

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