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With Brendan Lemieux, it was never a case of if, but when.
The 22-year-old Winnipeg Jets forward just can’t seem to help himself, displaying an alarming lack of self-control over his young career. If the 407 penalty minutes in four years of junior wasn’t the first red flag, then the 300 penalty minutes over two partial seasons with the Manitoba Moose was the proverbial smoking gun.
But beneath the hair-trigger temper is an actual hockey player, one who has shown signs of being able to hang at the highest level when he isn’t sitting in the sin bin.