"This has all the earmarks of a hockey classic." Those words were spoken by Jim Carr, the unforgettable radio announcer of the Charlestown Chiefs, while he hyped a game during the legendary movie ...
Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) never received the memo that everything folds eventually. Or maybe he just refused to read it. The player-coach for perennial losers the Charlestown Chiefs, the ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Call it the generation slap shot gap. The blasts, once ubiquitous in the NHL, continue their decline as the speed of the game dictates players fire off quicker wrist shots or hybrid ...
Former professional hockey player Guido Tenesi, who starred in the 1977 sports classic “Slap Shot,” died at 71 years old. “We’re saddened to learn of the passing of Guido Tenesi, a member of our ...
"Slap Shot," a feature film about a minor league hockey team starring Hollywood icon Paul Newman, opened in theaters on Feb. 25, 1977. The film got a strong review in The New York Times from Vincent ...
'70s Week: "Slap Shot" could've been just another low-rent sports movie, but screenwriter Nancy Dowd saw it as a chance to give shape to a generation of nonconformist yearners. “I was thinking about ...