Ouch! Ice hockey player tweets picture of bloody mouth after losing 10 teeth and suffering broken jaw with puck to the face

• WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE
• Grand Rapids Griffins player Mitch Callahan, 22, was hit by a teammate's puck during a game against Iowa on Wednesday night
• He tweeted a gruesome picture of his injuries with the caption: 'Ouch'
• He lost 10 teeth, suffered a broken jaw and split lip, needing surgery

Grand Rapids Griffins ice hockey player Mitch Callahan shared a gruesome image of his bloody mouth after he was hit in the face by a puck.
Callahan, 22, uploaded the picture to his Twitter account just minutes after he was struck by a teammate's shot during an American Hockey League game against Iowa on Wednesday.
Callahan, who was already missing his two top front teeth, lost 10 teeth and suffered a broken jaw and split lip in the incident and underwent surgery on Thursday.

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Injured: Mitch Callahan, a player for the Grand Rapids Griffiths (in red), lost 10 teeth and suffered a broken jaw after he took a puck to the face in a game on Wednesday night. He is pictured at an earlier game

 

He was helped off the ice with a towel over his mouth as his teammates began looking for his teeth and, around 15 minutes later, he shared the photo with the message: 'Ouch.'
After posting the photo, he was taken to the hospital and the Detroit Red Wings prospect was undergoing surgery on Thursday, Wings general manager Ken Holland told the Detroit Free Press
Callahan was hit by a slap shot from team-mate Ryan Sproul, who feels guilty about the incident, according to a former Griffins player, Luke Glendening.
'He feels terrible,' Glendening said. 'He didn't want to talk about it. He feels bad. I guess Cally got cross-checked and he was falling as Sproul shot it, but he still feels terrible.'

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Gruesome: Callahan shared the image, left, on Twitter after the puck smashed out his teeth, broke his jaw and badly split his top lip. The hockey player, originally from California, is now undergoing surgery

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Support: Callahan, the team's second top goal scorer, is pictured with his long-term girlfriend, Kristen

Callahan is the the Grand Rapids Griffins' second-top goalscorer and the team went on to beat Iowa 6-1 in the game on Wednesday night.