Former professional hockey player Guido Tenesi, best known for starring in the 1977 sports comedy film Slap Shot, has died at the age of 71, according to his former team, the Hershey Bears of the ...

Before he made Slap Shot, Hill helmed the all-time great films The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and after Slap Shot, Hill made gems including The World According to Garp.

First off, if you haven’t seen Slap Shot, step away, flip on Netflix and stream it.The 1977 film not only the greatest hockey movie ever made, but perhaps the funniest sports comedy, as well ...

Post-Standard film critic, Nevart Apikian, wrote that “Slap Shot” was a “vitality-filled film that is enormously entertaining in a wildly funny way,” and predicted that it would be ...

Spoken by Paul Newman, who portrayed the washed-up player-coach of a dilapidated minor-league hockey team in the 1977 film “Slap Shot,” these words introduced the world to what has become a ...

Paul D'Amato, best known for playing Tim “Dr. Hook” McCracken in 'Slap Shot,' died after a four-year battle with progressive supranuclear palsy. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

D’Amato’s Slap Shot co-star Steve Carlson, who had his own memorable turn in the film as Steve Hanson of the Hanson Brothers, remembered D’Amato on X yesterday: RIP Paul D'Amato ...

At the Plaza Theatre, a special ribbon-cutting ceremony was held using a movie reel of film. Even a few of the stars of Slap Shot were on-hand to greet movie goers.

Four decades ago, Slap Shot didn’t fare particularly well with the moviegoers or critics of the day, many of whom took issue with the film’s violence and raunchy humor — the very things, of ...