Hagel natural hat trick in a wild track meet.
TB-8
NJ-5
Jonas Johansson allowed five goals on 35 shots while bathing in the cool purifying waters of pure goal support.
First Period
11:02 NJ Hughes (2), (Bratt, Palat)
14:09 TB Point (4), (Cirelli, Kucherov)(PP)
Second Period
0:51 NJ Meier (3), (Hughes)
7:34 TB Hedman (1), (Moser, Guentzel)
9:27 TB Hagel (3), (Cirelli, Perbix)
13:01 TB Hagel (4), (Geekie, Cirelli)
15:53 TB Hagel (5), (Lilleberg, Cirelli)
17:28 TB Hedman (2), (Hagel, Moser)
Third Period
2:56 NJ Bastian (2), (Lazar)
5:24 NJ Meier (4), (Tatar, Nemec)(PP)
5:48 TB Guentzel (2), (Kucherov)(PP)
9:19 TB Moser (2), (Paul)(SH)
12:45 NJ Noesen (3), (Hughes, Hamilton)(PP)
Brandon Hagel, Victor Hedman, and JJ Moser were the game’s three stars.
Conor Geekie had his first NHL point on a helper and was +3 with 1 shot and 1 hit in 12:48.
Mitchell Chaffee had a shot in 12:32.
Emil Lilleberg had a helper and was +2 with 2 penalty minutes, 1 shot, 1 hit, and 3 blocked shots in 19:05. So, most of the +/- damage done to Lilleberg and Geekie’s stat lines for the season in the Toronto game got reversed in this one. Good stuff.
Box score and extended statistics from NHL.com.