As soon as Charlie McAvoy saw a slap shot sailing towards him at Bell Centre, he expected the worst.

“I knew we were in trouble there,” McAvoy said Friday at Warrior Ice Arena . “I’d never taken one before, but you don’t take a slap shot to the jaw —I knew right away I was in some trouble.”

Charlie McAvoy just left the game after taking this puck high. pic.twitter.com/755Rxqw3qy — B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) November 16, 2025

The damage doled out by Noah Dobson’s blast was evident right away. As soon as the puck struck McAvoy square in the jaw, several of his teeth landed on the frozen sheet.

By the time McAvoy made it off the ice with head athletic trainer Dustin Stuck, fellow Bruins defenseman Nikita Zadorov was busy trying to locate his teeth amid the pool of blood on the ice.

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