20 hockey smiles that prove teeth are overrated

9. Sean Couturier

Sean Couturier has about as many teeth as your two-year old niece. The defensive forward lost his pearly whites to a puck, and though he wears a dental bridge off the ice, he embraces the look at work. He’s become somewhat synonymous with his three missing teeth, with the Flyers organization posting this when he returned from injury a few years back:

In retrospect, the three Flyers players on this list should have been more spaced out (as much as Couturier’s teeth are — hey-o!). As any hockey writer will tell you, it is difficult to write three consecutive sections about Flyers players without being too negative. Despite this, no one can argue that these smiles belong among the great smiles in hockey.

Couturier resembles the next player on this list, perhaps on purpose, as he is the greatest Flyer in the history of the organization. And his smile narrowly edges out Couturier in Flyers lore.