Brandon Hagel and Victor Hedman scored second-period goals, and the host Tampa Bay Lightning secured their season-best sixth straight win in a 4-1 thrashing of the slumping Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.

Brandon Hagel and Victor Hedman scored second-period goals, and the host Tampa Bay Lightning secured their season-best sixth straight win in a 4-1 thrashing of the slumping Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.

Hagel, of course, had a starring role in the first Canada-USA game Saturday in Montreal, dropping the gloves with Matthew Tkachuk off the opening faceoff and riling up the crowd afterward by throwing both hands in the air.

Hagel's comments came in response to Team USA’s pre-planned approach to their round-robin matchup, which featured three fights in the first nine seconds — starting with one featuring Hagel and Matthew Tkachuk — with the Americans plotting the bouts in advance through a group chat.

The reasons differ from player to player and from one situation to the next. The three American forwards, for example, infamously had a group chat before the game in which they all pledged to get the crowd going by fighting in the game. Canada’s Brandon Hagel, on the other hand, had a different reason.

In the 4 Nations Face-Off final, Canada bested the United States in overtime - after a week full of chatter from the U.S. side.

Matthew Tkachuk and Brandon Hagel were the first to drop ... he said that he wanted a piece of him [Hagel].” Tkachuk and Hagel play for rivaling NHL teams in the Florida Panthers and Tampa ...

Team Canada forward Brandon Hagel dropped a fiery comment on his fight with USA's Matthew Tkachuk during Canada's 3-1 loss.

The Tampa Bay Lightning have their longest winning streak since the 2020-21 season after beating the Edmonton Oilers 4-1 on Tuesday at AMALIE Arena. A Leon Draisaitl power-play goal kicked things off in favor of Edmonton, but the Lightning scored four unanswered goals to overtake the Oilers.

One day after USA GM Bill Guerin told Fox News his team had a room full proud Americans and that he hoped President Donald Trump would come watch the final, Canadian defenceman Brandon Hagel said the Maple Leaf gives his squad motivation.

Nikita Kucherov had two assists and the streaking Tampa Bay Lightning beat Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton Oilers 4-1.

One could efficiently argue that Kucherov is more valuable to his team than just about anyone else, as illustrated by NHL Senior Writer Greg Wyshynski in his latest Bubble Watch piece. "With 83 points in 53 games this season,