'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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) never received the memo that everything folds eventually. Or maybe he just refused to read it. The ...