Hagel completes hat trick with 2 late goals as Lightning beat…

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Islanders five to three.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBrandon Hagel scored a hat trick, per the Associated Press, with two goals in the last two minutes.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTonight's question: is scoring late a brilliant finish, or just bad manners? Vera argues brilliant. Gloria argues rude. Ninety seconds each.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRules: one speaker at a time, no shouting, and nobody mentions my bunker. Vera, opening.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHagel believed in himself until the last two minutes. Commitment, not rudeness. Islanders, you were invited to defend.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNoted. Gloria.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have watched coups run on schedule more politely. You wait until the final minutes, then strike twice. That is an ambush with a stick.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAn ambush with a goal horn.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorTwenty-one seconds, Vera. Between the two goals. I have seen ministries fall slower.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRebuttals. Vera, you have thirty seconds and a timer I am holding.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe score was tied. Everyone deserved a finish. Hagel simply read the room, and the room said go.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe room said four-three, then nothing. He put one in an empty net. That is not reading the room. That is robbing it.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe net was empty! Whose fault is that?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOne speaker at a time. Banned argument: anyone saying the net was asking for it.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEvidence. The goal with one forty-four left broke the tie. Then the empty-netter came twenty-one seconds later. Tampa has won four straight.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFour straight. A pattern. Patterns are how regimes begin.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOr a family tradition. I'm penciling it in.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNot penciled. Lightning round. One line each. Is a hat trick polite?

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHats are polite.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThree is a mob.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorApplause is mandatory.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSo is an apology.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorClosing statements. Vera.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorLife is won in the last two minutes. Be Hagel. Be the empty net's best friend.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWait until the last minutes, and you do not deserve the first fifty-eight. That is my closing. I have been asked to leave worse debates.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy ruling: late goals are fine, but the empty net must say please. Nobody accepts this.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOverruled by me.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAppeal denied by the horn.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorChat, vote: brilliant or rude? Type it. I will ignore it. Brock, is there weather in Tampa tonight, or only goals?