Anyway, other than "Youngblood" and "Slap Shot," pickings get slim for pure hockey movies. In other words, "Mighty Ducks" territory.
In the first installment of the series, Emilio Estevez plays a stereo typical greedy lawyer who gets busted for DWI and has to perform community service by coaching a stereotypical inner-city pee-wee team with no money but a lotta heart.
In the second one (which came out after the NHL's Anaheim Mighty Ducks had begun operation), the Ducks go to the junior world championships and battle Evil European Teams.
They're kids' movies without much blood, so not many Harvard players saw either one. However, Adams did acknowledge that it is possible to pirouette with hockey skates, because in D-1, the girl on the team scores a goal on the super-secret pirouette-in-the-slot play. Score one for realism, at least.
Those are the only real fictional hockey movies. For documentary fans, there's "Miracle on Ice," which chronicles the 1980 U.S. Olympic champion team. Of course, many of Harvard's players are Canadian, so they don't go for that stuff.
"Love Story" involves the Harvard hockey team, but it's only secondary to the movie. Many players on the team hadn't seen it (Crimson Key, where are you?), but Philpott thought it was kind of cool to have a movie about Harvard hockey. He didn't like losing to Cornell, though.
"Sudden Death" has Jean-Claude van Damme beating up a bad guy that wants to blow up the arena during Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. Some had seen it, some hadn't; no one considered it a hockey movie.
"The Cutting Edge" is about a figure skater and an ex-hockey player who are both jerks yet team up to win the Olympic medal in team figure skating. The plot could have been improved by having her play hockey instead of him doing a lutz, but Philpott still watched it when it was on earlier this week.
"It's not really a hockey movie," he said. "I'm not sure too many guys will admit liking that movie."
Adams sure didn't.
"I made a point about not seeing that one," he said.
And finally, "Strange Brew" is a weird, Canadian comedy about a couple guys going around drinking beer. They then uncover a plot by a brewer to take over the world by putting mind-control ingredients in the beer and bringing it to Oktober-fest.
The only hockey scenes come when the brewer tests his formula by "willing" the patients at a local insane asylum to play hockey. Canadians love it; Americans either haven't seen it or don't understand it.
"I love that movie," said Rodgers, a British Columbia native. "That's hilarious--all the 'eh, hoser,' stuff, I thought that was great.
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