As funny as it gets

Rating: 10/10 (22 October 1999)

Minor league hockey team discovers that brawls and dirty play attract more fans than goals. Tables are turned when championship-game opponents respond in spades. Wonderful, free-spirited performance by Newman as team's player-coach. Lindsay Crouse is also fine as confused wife of star player Ontkean, who has his own unique response to the bloodshed. You have to watch this just to see the Hanson Brothers in action. Message of movie has been lost on current-day NHL.