Actor Thicke Hurt by Hockey Puck

Reuters ^ | 4-23-03

[dogbyte12]

Alan Thicke, the Canadian-born actor best known as a TV dad on the hit comedy "Growing Pains," lost five teeth and required 30 stitches after getting hit with a hockey puck.

"I won't be playing any leading man roles in the next couple of months," Thicke said in a statement issued by spokesman Jerry Digney.

[dogbyte12]

"I won't be playing any leading man roles in the next couple of months," Thicke said in a statement issued by spokesman Jerry Digney.

Sorry about the teeth Alan, but I don't think your phone is ringing off the hook.

[JetSetGirl]

"'I won't be playing any leading man roles in the next couple of months,' Thicke said"


Hmm.... I'm sure the Lifetime and Oxygen channels are going to suffer from this. Without this fallen star, who will they find to replace him? WHO?!

[Bigg Red]

...was not wearing proper headgear when he took an errant puck to the face.

Too bad this wasn't a celebrity match that included many more Hollywoodies without headgear.

[cherry]

...as I said on another thread....why is all this happening to poor Canada (Canadians)?

[b4its2late]

Ouch.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

"Ohhh, poor baby!"

[gridlock]

Alan Thicke, the Canadian-born actor best known as a TV dad on the hit comedy "Growing Pains," lost five teeth and required 30 stitches after getting hit with a hockey puck.

Doesn't this happen to all Canadian men at some point in their lives?

[Diddle E. Squat]

The actual quote was:

"I won'th be plthaying any ltheading man rolthesth in thhhe nexth couplthe of monthhhs,"

[gridlock]

I think we would have a whole boatload of FReeper volunteers to put Peter "Lettuce Roll" Jennings through this particular Canadian rite-of-passage!

[Cyber Liberty]

You're thinking of West Virginia, home of the inventor of the "toothbrush".

Invented anywhere else, it would have been called a "teethbrush".

[sticker]

When I saw the headline I thought Martin Sheen had poped him

[Ebenezer]

"What are you looking at, you hockey puck?"

- Mr. Potato Head (voice of Don Rickles), in the 1995 Disney/Pixar animated film "Toy Story"

Now I see what happens when you cross paths with one of those little suckers.

[mitchbert]

In Canada, kids hockey leagues are a parental plot to impoverish the tooth fairy.

[F.J. Mitchell]

"Who?"

Mikey Ferrel, comes to mind, or Ed Asner.

Pick any name from the War protester air head roster.

[scott7278]

"I won't be playing any leading man roles in the next couple of months..."

And the difference is?

[scott7278]

LOL!

[CWOJackson]

Wow...just like Chirac; playing hockey without a mask.

[skinkinthegrass]

Was Tim Robbins mad @ him?

[MD_Willington_1976]

Still got my teeth...

[GoreIsLove]

Tony Danza

Steve Guttenberg

Adrian Zmed

Henry Winkler

Rick Springfield

Mark Harmon

Ed Begley, Jr.

the guy who played the DJ on "Northen Exposure"

The male cast members of "thirty something"