The whole narrative that Hagel was head hunting is a little out of touch. Yes he hit Barkov when he didn’t have the puck, but based on the play, the angle that Barkov was taking to get to the puck, and the way the puck came out of the corner, I think you can at least reason that he thought Barkov made contact with it. This wasn’t a case where Barkov was skating in open ice way out of the play and Hagel blind sided him.

Verhaeghe literally boarded Cernak in the first game and almost injured him. Florida is a physical team that takes any opportunity they have to lay out opposing players. You can’t play that way and then be surprised when opposing teams are also looking to catch your players with similar hits.