Brendan Lemieux has done the time.
But can the gritty Jets forward tread carefully enough to avoid the increasingly punitive reach of NHL justice in the future?
The 22-year-old Lemieux was tagged for a two-game suspension and fined US$9,023 in salary after an illegal check to the head of Florida Panthers forward Vincent Trocheck during a game in Helsinki Nov. 2.
He was assessed a match penalty on the play.