The Lightning played their best first-round playoff hockey against Florida in Saturday’s Game 3 win without Brandon Hagel. The forward was serving a one-game suspension for his Game 2 interference hit on Florida’s Aleksander Barkov.

Brandon Hagel will miss Game 3 of the Lightning's first-round playoff series after getting suspended for his late hit that knocked Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov out of Game 2.

Hagel introduced himself to anyone not already paying attention during the 4 Nations Face-Off in February, where he fired both punches and verbal challenges for Canada, fighting Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk in the first United States-Canada showdown and announcing his team was playing “for a flag, not the cameras,” in a shot at the U.S.