Nov 29, 2021 · That included Canadiens forward Claude Lemieux, who bit down on the finger of Calgary’s Jim Peplinski. “I don’t know if I bit Peplinski or not,” Lemieux said. “But I think I broke a tooth. When you’re fighting, anything can happen. It might have been a stick I bit.”

Apr 21, 2017 · (Left to right) Darren McCarty fights Claude Lemieux after McCarty beat Lemieux to the ice earlier in the 1997 season. (Photo courtesy of The Peterborough Examiner) When people think of hockey, they think of stereotypes like missing teeth, hard hits, beards and pucks — but it seems most people identify the sport with fighting.

Apr 3, 2007 · After all the sucker punches, slew foots, sticks to the groins and verbal assaults, there is plenty of reason to dislike Claude Lemieux. But you also have to admire what he accomplished and his stature as one of the greatest NHL playoff performers of all time.

Let’s take a deep dive into how the actions of Keith Tkachuk and Claude Lemieux led to the meeting of Brendan Lemieux’s teeth and Brady Takchuk’s hand. Both Keith Tkachuk and Claude Lemieux were, to say the least, agitators in the 90’s NHL.

Mar 26, 2015 · Their pleas of self-defense fell on deaf ears at the league offices. Claude Lemieux and Jim Peplinski

Dec 24, 2008 · All are -- deep breath -- great players (well, maybe not Claude), yet all seem to make my eyes narrow and teeth clench. But what made it so easy to hate these guys?

Claude Lemieux and Brendan Lemieux are the only father-son duo to be suspended for biting other players. The day after Brendan got suspended for biting I was watching around the horn …

May 7, 2022 · The Wings’ primary target that night was Claude Lemieux, a right winger for the Avalanche, who had maimed the face of Detroit’s Kris Draper with a blindside check into the boards in Denver during...

May 31, 1996 · DETROIT RED Wings center Kris Draper, who was smashed into the boards by Colorado’s Claude Lemieux in Game 6 of the conference finals, will have his fractured jaw surgically repaired today....

May 13, 2015 · More than one Flyer had told the Canadiens’ Claude Lemieux not to end the pregame warm-up by shooting a puck into the Flyers’ empty net. Lemieux’s ritual, much like his personality, had crawled under the Flyers’ skin like a 200-pound tick.