Hockey Player Loses Tooth, Wins Game, Creates New Tradition

THIS is how you win a hockey game.

The Montreal Canadiens and the Ottawa Senators have stumbled into a new tradition.

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In Game 1 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal game, Senators goaltender Craig Anderson took a shot off his face mask.

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Resulting in this:

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Gross.

And in Game 2, Canadiens goalie Carey Price took a skate to the mask...

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Which knocked out two of his teeth.

Here, take my tooth.

Then, in Game 3, Senators rookie Jean-Gabriel Pageau took a high stick to the face...

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And lost his tooth.

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Here he is picking it up off the ice.

So in the first three games of the series, three different players have lost teeth. And each time, the toothless player's team has won.

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In other words, the only way to win, is to lose.

"I'm here for your teeth," said Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as the hockey tooth fairy.