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A puck in the mouth wasn’t about to stop Noel Acciari from putting one in the net - The Boston Globe
Noel Acciari, the first star in the Bruins’ 4-1 win over the Lightning Thursday night, left the Garden with his third goal of the season tacked on his career CV and a big, puck-eating smile on his face.
Admit it, dear reader, you’re wincing right now. Your toes are curled and tucked. The mere notion of a cold, steely chunk of rubber smashing full force into your mouth is probably enough to make you shut the blinds, pull up the covers and text the office (too painful to call!) to inform the boss you’ll need a week or two to get back to full working order. Maybe.
Hockey players aren’t totally alone in the pain-and-play category. Football and rugby players also are a special breed when it comes to toleratin’ the intolerable. But the hockey guys seem to relish their lives as the kings of pain. That either makes them ghoulish or just plain, well . . . nuts.
“No . . . not at all . . . he’s a pretty tough customer,” said Tuukka Rask, asked if he was surprised Acciari was back in the lineup. “I think he just wanted to wear that lucky bubble. He’s a pretty tough cookie.”
“Especially with this group here . . . it takes a lot more than a puck in the mouth to keep a guy out of the game,” said Brad Marchand. “You see what guys consistently play through here.”
“You know,” added Marchand, “hockey players don’t sit out just because they have a sore thumb.”
But a puck to the mouth and teeth flying out as if being shot from a Pez dispenser? Dental pain is its own special category. CVS nearly devotes a full aisle to the gels and assorted numbing agents for customers who’ve lost a filling or had a tooth shatter on a piece of hard candy.
good stuff, I`m positive we know about a quarter if that about the injuries that go on during the course of the year