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The Hanson Brothers are a fictional trio of siblings who played for the fictional minor league ice hockey team the Charlestown Chiefs in the 1977 movie Slap Shot and its two sequels. [1] The characters – Dave , Steve , and Jeff Hanson – were based on real-life siblings Jack , Steve , and Jeff Carlson, who played for the 1974-75 Johnstown ...
Slap Shot: 1977 Comedy Starring Paul Newman as the player-coach of a rowdy, raunchy minor-league team. The Deadliest Season: 1977 Drama TV film with Michael Moriarty and Meryl Streep about hockey's violence. Ice Castles: 1978 Drama Alexis "Lexie" Winston is a sixteen-year-old girl from Waverly, Iowa who dreams of becoming a champion figure skater.
25 years after the events of the first film, the Charlestown Chiefs are still languishing in Pennsylvania. Sean Linden, a former NHL player whose name has been disgraced for betting on games, has replaced Reggie Dunlop as the main protagonist — initially a player-coach, just like Dunlop, Linden also serves as the team's captain.
He appeared in the movie Slap Shot as one of the three Hanson Brothers, who were based on Carlson and his brothers and teammates. [1] Carlson played in the World Hockey Association with the New England Whalers, Edmonton Oilers and Minnesota Fighting Saints and in the National Hockey League for the Los Angeles Kings, scoring nine goals for the ...
The comedy movie Slap Shot was made while Goldthorpe was still an active player. According to Ned Dowd , brother of "Slap Shot" writer Nancy Dowd (and a hockey player in his own right), the "Ogie" Ogilthorpe character incorporated elements of Goldthorpe (especially his wild demeanor and frizzy, Harpo Marx -like haircut), but was not actually him.
Paul D’Amato, best known for playing Tim “Dr. Hook” McCracken in hockey comedy “Slap Shot” and who helped inspire the look of the comic book Wolverine, has died at 76.
Geoffrion was born in Montreal, Quebec, and began playing in the NHL in 1951.He earned the nickname "Boom Boom" for his thundering slapshot (which Geoffrion claimed to have 'invented' as a youngster ) from sportswriter Charlie Boire of the Montreal Star in the late 1940s while playing junior hockey for the Laval Nationale.
Slap Shot 3: The Junior League is a 2008 Canadian-American sports film directed by Richard Martin and starring Greyston Holt and Lynda Boyd.It follows a junior version of the Charlestown Chiefs who fight their way to fame with a new coach and the Hanson Brothers in tow.