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Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by George Roy Hill, written by Nancy Dowd, and starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean.It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a factory town in decline.
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 ...
This is a list of fictional sports teams, athletic groups that have been identified by name in works of fiction but do not really exist as such.Teams have been organized by the sport they participate in, followed by the media product they appear in. Specific television episodes are noted when available.
The story of the 1980 U.S. Gold Medal hockey team and their stunning victory over the Soviet Union Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice: 2002 Comedy Direct-to-video follow-up to 1977 film, with new cast plus the Hanson Brothers. Miracle: 2004 Drama Based on the 1980 Miracle on Ice, with Kurt Russell as coach Herb Brooks. The Chiefs: 2004 Documentary
Paul D’Amato, best known for playing Tim “Dr. Hook” McCracken in hockey comedy “Slap Shot,” died after a four-year battle with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare brain disease, on ...
Michael Ontkean (born January 24, 1946) [1] is a Canadian actor, long-based in the United States, now retired. [2]Ontkean relocated to the United States to attend the University of New Hampshire on a hockey scholarship before pursuing a career in acting in the early 1970s.
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.
In this photo from December 2010, Worcester native Paul D'Amato, right, who played Tim "Dr. Hook" McCracken in the 1977 movie classic "Slap Shot," poses with the Worcester Sharks' Mike Moore after ...