Fortunately for Benoit Pouliot, there were no referees at Edmonton Oilers practice Wednesday, greatly reducing the odds of his spending most of it in the penalty box.
Not leaving his team shorthanded during their 40-minute workout at Rexall Place is the first small step on his road to redemption, a road made necessary by those costly lapses of reason the night before against Anaheim.
A couple of bad penalties, in bad areas on the ice, at bad times, helped tilt the scale in the Ducks’ favour and earned him a pretty significant blast from head coach Todd McLellan.