TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Erik Cernak will miss Game 2 of their first-round Stanley Cup playoff series against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night after he took a shot in the head from Michael Bunting in Game 1, coach Jon Cooper said.

Cernak was one of three Lightning players to leave with an injury. Forward Michael Eyssimont also won’t play in Game 2 Thursday night in Toronto after taking a hit from Toronto defenseman Jake McCabe. Cooper said top defenseman Victor Hedman was questionable to play.

The NHL has suspended Bunting three games for the hit.

Bunting was given a match penalty and ejected from Game 1 for an illegal check to the head late in the second period. Cernak left and did not return.

Cooper generally deferred to the league when asked about Bunting’s hit Tuesday night but said at the time that it “checks all the boxes” for supplemental discipline.

Veteran Maple Leafs defenseman Mark Giordano said Bunting did not intend to injure Cernak.

“I don’t think Bunts really even looked at him," Giordano said. "I think it was just one of those plays where you know who you’re playing against, and the guy knows he’s going to come at you hard. He was trying to just go shoulder-to-shoulder, get some separation, and it ended up in that.”