Hockey Halloween: 10 greatest Jack O’ Lantern player faces
It’s Halloween, and hopefully that means you have a properly carved pumpkin on your stoop ready to spook and scare the little moppets that come trick-or-treating tonight. Or, if you’re Zdeno Chara, you can just open the door.
Hockey is a sport that lends itself to Halloween. Not just because of the gore and the Jason Voorhees masks, but because so many of our players have gross, jacked up faces.
Here are the 10 greatest Jack O’Lantern faces in hockey, some of who never played for the Philadelphia Flyers:
10. Bobby Hull
Seriously, just stick a candle on his tongue and put him on the stoop.
He looks like someone who tried to gum a pearl necklace.
9. Jeff Carter
Go to the patch and pick out the loveliest, most perfectly shaped pumpkin. Then take a machete to its mouth. Ta-da, you have The Jeff Carter.
8. Mitch Callahan
Callahan plays for the Grand Rapids Griffins. As you can see, he has a rather toothless smile. But he makes this list for the selfie he took after getting a puck to the mouth, in which he lost 10 teeth. Click if you dare. Or if you want to see what it looks like if a large-mouth bass tried to eat cherry compote.
7. Alex Ovechkin
The funny part is that he’s actually a model of dental perfection back in Moscow.
6. Sean Couturier
It’s like the front of his mouth opened like a theater curtain. Fun fact: Penguins fans think his smile is overrated.
5. Mike Ricci
A bit more “Halloween mask” than pumpkin face, but this list wouldn’t be complete without the gap-toothed smirk of a true rink rat.
4. Dan Carcillo
A lonely Jack O’Lantern whose wish to become a real human boy finally came true.
3. Ken Daneyko
That old pumpkin that seems to get scarier every week you accidentally keep it by your front door. This is Daneyko in 2003, when all the seeds had turned brown, the top sunk into the carved out park and some weird moss started to grow on it.
2. Duncan Keith
The bad news: The man actually went through life looking like this, scaring unsuspecting children whenever he spoke. The good news: He’d always offer you his corn on the cob, because it was useless for him.
1. Bobby Clarke
The granddaddy of all hockey Jack O’Lantern faces. And not just because his jersey was orange.
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