Brady Tkachuk calls Brendan Lemieux “a brick head” after biting incident

Like father, like son.

Los Angeles Kings forward Brendan Lemieux, son of the infamous pest Claude Lemieux, was ejected from Saturday’s game against the Ottawa Senators for biting the hand of Brady Tkachuk.

Tkachuk and Lemieux dropped the gloves in the corner of Ottawa’s zone with about six minutes left in the third period. The two wound up on the ice with an official trying to break them up. When Tkachuk stood up, he showed a hand with bite marks and blood.

Brendan Lemieux ejected for biting Brady Tkachuk 😬. Tkachuk shows the evidence pic.twitter.com/VpjOGiNaWk

— Brady Trettenero (@BradyTrett) November 28, 2021

Lemieux was given a 10-minute misconduct and was booted from the game. He’s been offered an in-person hearing with the Department of Player Safety, meaning Lemieux could face a suspension over six games.

After the game, Tkachuk sounded off on Lemieux, who he referred to as a “brick head,” “joke,” and “bad person.”

“This guy, you can ask any one of his teammates, nobody ever wants to play with him. This guy is a bad guy and a bad teammate. He focuses on himself all the time,” Tkachuk said in a report by Bruce Garrioch of TSN. “The guy’s just a joke. He shouldn’t be in the league. This guy’s gutless. No other team wants him, he’s going to keep begging to be in the NHL but no other team is going to want him. He’s an absolute joke. I can’t even wrap my head around it. People don’t even do this. He’s just a bad guy.

“It’s outrageous. Kids don’t even do that anymore. Babies do that. I don’t even know what he was thinking, he’s just a complete brick head. He’s got nothing up there. Bad guy, bad player, but what a joke he is.”

This isn’t the first time members of the Tkachuk and Lemieux family have had beef. Back in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, Keith Tkachuk and Claude Lemieux squared off in a brawl in a heated match between Canada and the United States.

This also isn’t the first time a member of the Lemieux family was involved in a biting incident. During Game 4 of the 1986 Stanley Cup Final between the Montreal Canadiens and Calgary Flames, rookie Claude Lemieux bit Flames forward Jim Peplinski’s finger. Lemieux wasn’t suspended for the incident and won his first Stanley Cup two days later.