Wonderful movie for first-time viewer!

Rating: Null/10 (2 December 2002)

Well...believe it or not...despite it being around since 1977 and me much longer, I have just viewed this film for the first time. I knew it existed, but doubted it's veracity. I lived hockey for many years at many levels and can relate to all of the film's sequences, albeit clichÃ© by now.
The film was a 'hoot' and I can understand why it has become a cultish phenomena. I am glad that I had not seen it before as it gave me a fresh outlook to a part of my life that I didn't think could be transposed to film so effectively and with such humour. It rightly deserves to be a classic and I know it is now deemed as almost a 'right of passage' for all upcoming players.
Congratulations to the producers, directors and all involved in its making. I am sorry for the delay in watching, but I will watch again and again from now on!
As a sidebar, the following link to a newspaper article written at about the same time is probably one of the best 'true testimonials' about the nature of hockey as I then knew it. I hope you enjoy reading. Perhaps there was some inspiration in this article that led to the thought processes of the movie's writers.