He ended up doing a lot of his own skating in Slap Shot, although professional hockey player Rod Bloomfield served as his on-ice stunt double in many sequences. 3. TAPE RECORDINGS OF AUTHENTIC ...

What brings it all together is the action sequences. Granted ... and the hockey jokes don’t work for American audiences (Russell Crowe in a hockey movie? Please). “Slap Shot” works because it is so ...

Nobody is mistaking Slap Shot for a documentary about hockey. It’s a fictional world, yet it is filled with happiness and wonder that players get paid to take part in a violent, emotional sport.

WASHINGTON (7News) — We've said it time and time again; Alex Ovechkin is really good at hockey. His specialty is the slapshot from his so called "office," which is from the left circle on the ice.

In the locker room before the game, Steve Carlson warned Johnstown coach Dick Roberge, according to the book “The Making of Slap Shot: Behind the Scenes of the Greatest Hockey Movie” by ...

Several scenes for Slap Shot were filmed in June 1976 at the Onondaga County War Memorial in Syracuse. The Chiefs are based on the Johnstown Jets of the old Eastern and the North American hockey ...

Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean. It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a declining ...