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Pic: Ice-hockey player shows the gruesome aftermath of a puck hitting him full force in the mouth

Published 14:13 3 Apr 2014 BST

Updated 15:23 12 Nov 2014 GMT

Conor Heneghan
Pic: Ice-hockey player shows the gruesome aftermath of a puck hitting him full force in the mouth

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We highly recommend not reading on if you’re currently eating your lunch. At least you still can eat your lunch. This guy, on the other hand…

We’re big fans of ice-hockey in JOE Towers but it seems as if a week doesn’t pass at this stage without somebody in the sport suffering the type of injury that would make one wonder why anyone would ever throw on a pair of skates in the first place. The latest victim is one Mitch Callahan of the Grand Rapids Griffins, whose mouth, teeth and lips all took a bit of a battering after he was hit in the face by a shot from his own teammate in a clash against the Iowa Wild on Wednesday night. The message he posted alongside the picture he put up on Twitter is a little bit of an understatement.   Bad and all as the picture looks – and it looks really, really bad – it should be pointed out that Callahan was already missing his two front teeth before the incident but he is in danger of soon becoming the real-life equivalent of Gummy Joe from The Simpsons if he keeps losing them at this rate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4iQNmE6Eko Hat-tip: Deadspin

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Pic: Ice-hockey player shows the gruesome aftermath of a puck hitting him full force in the mouth