Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean. It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a declining ...

The four played together with the minor-league Johnstown Jets in 1974 and 1975, inspiring the Hanson brothers in the movie "Slap Shot," which was written by Nancy Dowd, the sister of yet another ...