Slapshot, Meet Smile: Inside the Craziest Job in Sports - The NHL Dentist

The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Pucks to the mouth. Teeth flying to the ice. Hockey players aren't known for their perfect smiles. But have you ever wondered who exactly comes to the rescue mid-game, after a player takes a slapshot to the teeth, and gets them back on the ice? Enter the world of NHL dentists - the brave heroes who put hockey players' notorious grins back together. ESPN writer Dave Fleming takes Mina Kimes on a gory, grueling journey of mouth molds, chiclets, emergency surgery, and more tales of dental hockey horror. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mina Kheim's host of the ESPN Daily podcast.
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0:30.3	There you go. You need to go spend a little time with the dentist tomorrow.
0:33.2	Perfect. Just what he wants to do.
0:37.5	It might just be the toughest job in sports. A job filled with blood and gore.
0:42.9	You require split second thinking and years of intense preparation.
0:47.5	Brace yourself. Today we explore the secret life of dentist in the National Hockey League.
0:55.2	You guys know the drill. I'm Mina Kheim's. It's Thursday, November 7th, and this is ESPN Daily,
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1:07.2	Dave. Yes. Incredible investigative journalism here. This is really your molar report.
1:14.4	Wow, that's where we're starting. That is where we're starting.
1:19.0	Dave Fleming is a senior writer for ESPN.
1:22.2	Can you walk me through how a hockey player loses a tooth on the ice?
1:26.1	It's actually a really good question because it speaks to what I love about hockey.
1:30.0	And what I think doesn't translate on television especially is the speed and the violence
1:36.1	and the moving parts in hockey. There's nothing to compare to in sports.
1:43.4	You've got all these guys moving at 20 miles an hour,
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