Directed by George Roy Hill, Slap Shot (1977) is an American sports drama film. The plot revolves around a struggling ice hockey team that experiences a dramatic turnaround when the management hires ...

"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 ...

MONTREAL-- Broadcaster Jim Carr sits patiently on the set of his TV show "Sports Talk" and listens to Federal League Charlestown Chiefs goalie Denis Lemieux explain the rule of icing through his thick ...

'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 ...

Once upon a time, there was a screenplay for a hockey movie that was so absurd, so over the top, that even the studio executives who wanted to make it wondered if it was too unrealistic. Almost every ...