Brandon Hagel has signed a new contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Waaaaaay too small of a sample size to give Hagel a contract like this. A 2-year bridge deal around 4M would've been more appropriate.

The cap must be going up in leaps and bounds over the next decade because holy smokes that's an expensive middle sixer

Brisebois: how big of a contract would you like?

Hagel:

Geez that's steep but could be worth it. Fairly risky contract.

I think that would have had UFA expiry though, so re-signing him afterwards would have been way more expensive and we’d risk losing him.

Holy cow I did not expect this.

Insane overpay. I think Hagel compliments stars well, but that doesn't mean you pay him like a good 2nd liner. He should've gotten a slightly better version of the Bunting deal imo.

Yeah, but I'd rather lose Hagel after two years for nothing than overpay an additional 6 years. But I may be wrong. I just think he may be completely replaceable for cheaper.

Love this deal for Hagel and the TBL. Extremely underrated player. His 2-way game is amazing. Could you squeeze his expiry RFA year, SURE. But you risk so much more in the long run. Lock him up. It's not like TBL has any decent prospect coming up.

Hagel is not a third liner. He spent most of the year on the top line and in the playoffs his line was our best line, whether you call it a 2nd line or not. He had 30 goals and 64 points last year.

Tampa Bay has apparently become the new Islanders in signing everyone on their roster to massive extensions at probably overpayments.

The deal makes sense given Tampa's current roster sheet and the speculation on the cap increasing over the next couple of years. If he has another 30 goal, 60 point campaign again next year he's probably looking at a short deal to UFA and then the chance of losing him for Tampa increases. Sticker shock is a little high but feel that over the course of the deal he'd more or less be worth this AAV. Solid deal for a team that is willing to give out term to players they like

Deals you make when you have no prospects on the horizon

why does Hagel have to be the one to reset the market lmao

what logical comparable is there for this deal.

Hagel was producing on a ****ty hawks team on like line 2 where all our offensive power stopped (minus him of course)

Why do GMs just love giving 8 year deals so often now?? Hagel is good, but this is risky

This seems like a deal that is probably fair value, but just doesn't really feel like it's fair value.

Are you kidding me? Can you imagine how pissed off Nylander is right now? He's asking for $4M more...per year... 11 Even Strength Points, an older player, and FAR FAR less defense.

Overpay right now, but could be good if the small sample size ends up being the norm.

But, when you give up two 1sts for a guy, you have to find a way to convince yourself it was worth it.



This is your version of “POP POP!”

It's like the Nichushkin deal my Avs made. In other words, it's pretty much the going rate for the second tier level winger. Obviously everyone except Hagel would have liked to see less, but no real issues with it from my perspective.

Plenty of comps...we're on a website full of them.

RNH comes immediately to mind. 9.33 CH%. Hagel (if the cap is 87.5), would be at 7.4%, in which case, Hagel is a bargain.

As a BUF fan, if we still had Hagel and Montour, we would be a playoff team already.

I love seeing all these armchair GMs trash this deal. I'm pretty sure TBL knows a thing or 3 about winning Stanley Cups.

Absolute steal for Tampa Bay. Hagel is significantly underrated. This contract is going to age VERY well. GO BOLTS!

I think there's a bit of over reacting to this, maybe because it came out of nowhere.
I think it's a good contract for player and team.
I just don't know where the Bolts are going to get the cap space, especially since there's no Seabrook after this year...