That's the message the NHL is trying to send Brendan Lemieux on Tuesday evening, suspending the Los Angeles Kings forward five games for biting the hand of Ottawa's Brady Tkachuk during an ...

McDavid will be suspended, as he should be. There's no way to defend that cross-check. His complaints are the same ones Lemieux and Hull had – he just expressed them a little differently.

he’s a multiple-repeat offender (suspended 23 games in total) who is highly likely to offend again. These are the guys Lemieux, GM Jim Rutherford and coach Mike Johnston are turning to after ...