from Marty Klinkenberg of the Globe and Mail,

Ben Bishop was in the net for the Tampa Bay Lightning on Oct. 25 when a shot by Toronto’s Peter Holland ricocheted off his facemask so violently that it snapped the chinstrap into the goalie’s mouth and knocked out two front teeth.

Bishop flopped over. His teammate Brian Boyle scooped up his incisors off the ice.
“The camera zoomed in on Ben’s face and I took a picture and texted it to a trainer on the bench,” Gil Rivera, the Tampa team dentist, says. “I asked him, ‘Am I really seeing this?’”

In response, Rivera quickly received three photos – one of Bishop’s missing teeth sitting on top of a table in the dressing room at Air Canada Centre, and two of the gaping space left behind.

“When I see a player touch the top of their mouth and start to count with their fingers, I wonder, ‘Geez, what have we got?’” Rivera says. “I hold my breath. You never quite know what it is going to look like when you peek in there.”

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