NEWARK, N.J. — With Steven Stamkos out for Tuesday’s road game against the Devils, Brandon Hagel was reunited with Brayden Point and Nikita Kucherov on the Lightning’s top scoring line.
Lightning coach Jon Cooper liked the energy Hagel brought to the line when Stamkos went out of Saturday’s game with an apparent left knee injury, and filling in for Stamkos in New Jersey, Hagel’s game hit another level.
The 25-year-old was the best player on the ice, scoring a go-ahead goal and setting up two others, including a short-handed goal that shifted momentum in the first period.
