According to Daily Mail - Sport, Jack Hughes described plans to get his teeth fixed this week. He and teammate Caroline Harvey visited Raising Cane's in Times Square weeks after the win, where, according to Daily Mail - Sport, Caroline Harvey described the Olympics as a super exciting time that brought attention to women's hockey. S.
beat Canada after having defeated them seven times in a row leading up to that match. Every NHL team has a dentist who attends games to handle mouth injuries, with Jason Schepis, the New Jersey Devils team dentist, having previously repaired Hughes's teeth after a high stick injury in the playoffs. According to The Independent - Main, Jason Schepis described performing root canals and fixes on Hughes's teeth.
We did the root canals, fixed it up. Those were his teeth.
Historical examples highlight hockey players' resilience: Joe Pavelski lost teeth after a puck hit his jaw in the 2019 playoffs, Keith Yandle lost nine teeth and returned to play 168 more consecutive games, Brent Burns lost three teeth after a stick hit his face in 2013 and has since played over 1,000 consecutive games, and Chris Clark needed three hours of surgery involving braces, screws, and a cadaver bone after a puck hit his mouth in 2006.
Yeah, the amount of dentists that have reached out, man, it's too many. But I'm going to get them fixed, hopefully this week.
I think people will be pissed if I do get them fixed.
It's a super exciting time. I think, obviously, the Olympics brought a lot of attention around that and a lot of eyeballs, especially women's hockey, just women and just hockey in general.
It's super special to be a part of it at this time and going into the league next chapter ahead. But yeah, I'm just enjoying the ride and just trying to keep growing that.
The thing about sports is, at least when we were kids... it's all about having fun, enjoying it. I know it's so cliché, but when you're eight years old, it's all about enjoying the sport, having fun, loving it, having a passion. Not like, 'How am I going to make the NHL?' when you're eight years old. So I think as you grow up... obviously, you focus in more, work hard, but the key base is always enjoying it, having fun. If you don't enjoy what you do, you're not going to be successful.
Me and Quinn were at that full game. We [were] going to leave after the second period. Then they were down 1-0. You get nervous for your own game sometimes, but man, we were stressed so big for these guys up in the crowd. Because I think they beat the Canadian women's team seven times in a row leading up to the gold medal game. Sports are weird where you can be better than them and you can lose the big one. We were so nervous for the girls because we knew that they were the better team. Obviously, they score one late and then they end overtime. We were just so relieved, so pumped up for them. We were just worried about... we played Slovakia the next night. We sprinted out of it.