OK, WatchDog Nation, I need your help again to avoid doing actual work myself.
Please use the comments section to nominate candidates for a poll I am doing on the best hockey movies ever.
I know, I know. The list will not be quite as long or impressive as those for baseball or boxing. That's why I need help. Thanks in advance.
(Of course, your lists should start with No. 2, because I think we all can agree No. 1 is spoken for.)
Comments (27)
The Mighty Ducks
(but not either of the 2 sequels)
Slap Shot. Hands down. Paul Newman, the Hansen Brothers. Say no more.
It's really Slap Shot and everybody else. Though I always had a soft spot for Mystery, Alaska.
Although if you go from #2 on, Miracle is next on my list.
Number one is "Rocket". Maurice Richard punching out Sean Avery's character is better than the fabulous Hanson brothers.
Mystery, Alaska.
The scene where the (small) home town quietly crowd reads their newspapers as the RANGERS take the ice is priceless.
Yep, number one is easy - "Slap Shot."
Duh.
I'll go with "Miracle" at number two.
Miracle gets my vote.
Slapshot - "puttin' on the foil, coach! Want some?"
Youngblood!
Slap Shot and Miracle are the top 2 and I would put Happy Gilmore #3 because "friends can listen to 'Endless Love' in the dark"
Slapshot, the funniest sports movie of all.
Mystery Alaska
Miracle because it was close to accurate
Youngblood--just because of one scene where the cutest girl (that would be Cynthia Gibb) took off her shirt :) (I think for the only time in her acting career.)
Here's my beef with giving Miracle a high position on the list...
Should it be in a Top 10? (are there 10 hockey movies? I dunno)
Sure.
But maybe a low Top 5 at best.
To anyone (well me, anyway) who was around in 79/80 and witnessed (strictly as an avid spectator of the game of hockey) the times and the events leading up to and including the "Miracle on Ice", the movie just doesn't do it justice.
And that's no reflection on the quality of the movie, I thought they did a pretty good job.
If it was a movie based on fiction, then sure, it would be a GREAT hockey movie.
But no book, no movie can ever capture the essence of what was the single greatest sports moment of the 20th Century.(IMHO)
It would be an injustice to the actual events surrounding "the Miracle" to give the movie a lofty plateau on a Top 10 list.
Just my opinion....from two time zones away
Anonymous post was me
1. Slap Shot
2. Clerks
3. Miracle (the single greatest sports moment of the 20th Century - it wasn't even on live TV!)
4. Youngblood
5. The Mighty Ducks
Neil, when does you write-up of MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives coming to the Soap Network on June 19 appear? That show is the NHL's version of Playmakers.
Hockeybob...
CLERKS!!!! Outstanding selection (although I thought Clerks II was funnier---but no hockey references)
1. Slap Shot.
2. Miracle.
That's it, my friend.
Nice to see you at Giants Stadium yesterday. I'm sorry Strahan didn't reference your bet about him playing into 2009. You looked a little pale. Get out of the basement more often.
Happy Gilmore was about a hockey player playing golf, and it had Bob Barker. Does it count?
1--Slap shot
2--Miracle
3 Mystery alaska
4--Mighty ducks
5 Mighty ducks 2
Thes movies are all in my top 100. of all time
Most Valuable Primate
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3337526784/tt0196106
Other movies not mentioned (but should be):
1 - Net Worth - about Ted Lindsay and the attempt to unionize the NHL in the 1950's (true story)
2 - Gross Misconduct - The Brian Spencer Story (another true story)
3 - Faceoff
4 - Paperback Hero
5 - Canada Russia 1972
Slapshot filmed in the glorious city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The same setting for Tom Cruise and All the Right Moves. Long live Ogie Oglethorpe.
I'm just asking...
Does Happy Gilmore count as a hockey movie?
How "bout.....
"The Easter Epic?"
Starring Kelly Hrudey and Pat Lafontaine.
Released Easter Sunday 1987.
maybe?
no?
get over yourself 505?
are there even 10 hockey movies
To follow obscure hockey themes in the film Canadian Bacon, John Candy and his fellow blue-collar American buddies are at a hockey game in Canada spouting off all the anti-Canadian sentiment they can think of in their heads. John Candy says Canadian beer sucks and starts a riot at a hockey game involving police, players, coaches, and fans. Watching this on TV the White House has a secret plan to declare war on Canada in midst of the the President (played by Alan Alda) having lackluster approval ratings. Sound familiar? A '90s film by Michael Moore. It was actually a very funny satire.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourview/2008/06/whats_the_best_hockey_movie_ev.html