Brendan Lemieux bites Brady Tkachuk.

You may want to watch your extremities if you're ever in the presence of Los Angeles Kings forward Brendan Lemieux, especially if he's feeling hungry.

On Saturday night during the third period of a game between the Ottawa Senators and the Los Angeles Kings, Senators captain Brady Tkachuk was bitten by the aforementioned Lemieux. There was roughly 6 minutes left on the game clock when a scrum ensued between the 2 teams and, after some pushing and shoving from a number of players, it was Tkachuk and Lemieux that were left face to face in the end.

The two men wrestled one another down onto the ice and continued to trade blows as the National Hockey League's officiating crew attempted to seperate them, but suddenly the look on Tkachuk's face changed drastically. The Senators captain looked stunned and he began to gesture at his hand, seemingly trying to get the attention of the referee to show him what had happened.

Although it was initially unclear what Tkachuk was complaining about, we now know with some level of certainty that Tkachuk had just been bitten by Lemieux during their scramble on the ice. Tkachuk once again signaled to his hand as he rose to his feet, and for the first time we could see a sizeable trail of red along the side of his hand. This was indicative of both a pretty hard bite on the part of Lemieux, but also a relatively large one considering just how much of Tkachuk's hand was damaged by the bite.

We've captured a screenshot of the bite, it's a little blurry but it gives you a very good idea of just how bad of a bite this was from Lemieux.

As I said initially there was a great deal of confusion about just exactly what had caused Tkachuk to complain so vocally following the scrum, and you can even hear the broadcast crew covering the game wondering about what had transpired on the ice in the replay.

I suspect there is a very good chance the NHL's Department of Player Safety is going to get involved in this matter.