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Brendan Lemieux Suspended Five Games For Biting

November 30, 2021 at 7:33 pm CDT | by Josh Erickson 13 Comments

The NHL Department of Player Safety today suspended Los Angeles Kings forward Brendan Lemieux for five games for biting Ottawa’s Brady Tkachuk.

The incident occurred in a game Saturday, a 4-2 Los Angeles victory. Lemieux was originally assessed a match penalty and two roughing penalties on the play, which occurred with 6:09 left in regulation.

The Department of Player Safety’s argument for the suspension revolves mainly around the clear and evident biting motion of Lemieux, as demonstrated by video evidence. Their video explanation of the ruling states as follows:

Tkachuk spins and drops his gloves to immediately engage with the player who has grabbed him. Lemieux drops his gloves and the two grab a hold of each other, wrestling briefly before Tkachuk takes Lemieux down to the ice. While on the ice, Lemieux, feeling Tkachuk’s hands on his face as they wrestle, bites Tkachuk on his bare left hand and does so with a substantial amount of force.

While circumstantial evidence supports the argument that Lemieux may have bitten Tkachuk multiple times during this fight, we are limiting our review of this incident to the bite that occurs almost immediately after the players fall to the ice… due to a lack of evidence, this decision does not include an analysis of how Tkachuk ended up bleeding from his right hand. We have heard Lemieux’s argument that the puncture may have been caused in this moment by Tkachuk punching him on the tooth with force sufficient to cause a puncture wound. The video evidence does not support this version of events. This is not a hockey play.

Lemieux has already been fined once and suspended twice, adding to the gravity of the suspension.

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  1. Bucky76

    1 year ago

    Should of been a bit more to set the mark on a childish behavior…but Tkachuk is no saint either…

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    • manos

      1 year ago

      Brady isn’t even remotely a dirty player.

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  2. loganhedrick

    1 year ago

    Brady Tkachuk bit himself and somehow gets Brandon Lemieux suspended 5 games, sheeshh! Lol

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  3. Polish Hammer

    1 year ago

    “The NHL Department of Player Safety today suspended Los Angeles Kings forward Brady Tkachuk for five games for biting Ottawa’s Brady Tkachuk.”???

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    • DarkSide830

      1 year ago

      Tkachuk taking drawing penalties to a whole other level.

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  4. aromaa

    1 year ago

    Doug kick him off the tour

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  5. vaadu

    1 year ago

    Channeling Mike Tyson?

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  6. JayHeck2158

    1 year ago

    Brandon must be related to Claude…two peas on a pod…dirty as dirt players

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    • manos

      1 year ago

      Claude is his father.

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  7. kingsfan1968

    1 year ago

    What the Tkachuk!

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  8. sweetg

    1 year ago

    Lemieux And tkachuk both are like their fathers. Which is not compliment to either. The fathers were two of least likeable players. Sons are same.

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    • Donovan Voigt

      1 year ago

      Keith was one helluva player and well Claude was sort of a punk back in the day imho

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    • bostonbob

      1 year ago

      SORT of? He was a dirty POS.

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