It's been awhile since we've had a good biting controversy in the NHL. The last one, as I recall, was Mikhail Grabovski's "alleged" bite of Max Pacioretty last spring.

We say "alleged" because the NHL was unable to produce incontrovertible visual evidence that Grabovski did the thing that everybody knows he did. Without proper footage of the crime, all we had was Pacioretty's super-bit hand, and that wasn't enough. It was much the same way that Alex Burrows got away with biting Patrice Bergeron back in 2011.

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We'll just go ahead and assume that learning to conceal your bite from the cameras is something that players are taught when they arrival at the NHL level. Meanwhile, in the minor pro Central Hockey League, John Snowden of the St. Charles Chill bit Matt Stephenson of the Missouri Mavericks, and we have the hard evidence right here: