Sentences with phrase «schwartz slap shot»

On May 2, 2015, after months of community rallying, Johnstown, Pa. — the city that served as inspiration for the popular hockey movie, «Slap Shot» — was named the first - ever Kraft Hockeyville ™ USA.

After jarring the puck loose from the corner, Haula fed Marchessault up top, and he went cross-ice to find Theodore, who rifled a slap shot past Vasilevskiy for the game - winner.

Beauvillier then deflected Johnny Boychuk's slap shot from the right point with his 16th at 4:36.

Yeah, if he's going to shoot from that specific position, maybe Subban should use his wrist shot more often than his slap shot.

After a decently executed first possession of the power play ended with a saved shot, the rest of the advantage was a mess of mistakes and turnovers, culminating in Jerred Smithson's terrific lay - out block of Marek Zidlicky's slap shot.

Federer even scored a goal off of a nice slap shot.

Thirty years after Slap Shot vaulted three minor league tough guys into hockey immortality, they're still playing their parts.

Orr won the 3 - 2 opener in Boston when he ripped a bouncing slap shot past Parent with only 22 seconds to play in the final period.

The Blackhawks battled back, and Brendan Morrison beat Smith with a slap shot midway through the period.

The slap shot is hockey's flashiest weapon and the one which brings the roars from the crowds.

At 95 mph Hull's slap shot is the fastest in the league, but his wrist shot, that seemingly easy flick he uses when in full flight, has been timed at 105 mph.

he had such an undeniably special slap shot though, who and what would I make it about for the current team?

Perhaps the most fascinating statistic about Hull reveals that his wrist shot is faster than his slap shot.

Last Saturday night in Toronto, Lemieux beat Felix Potvin with a slap shot from the slot three minutes into the game.

When Sidorenkov uncorks his favorite slap shot the puck looks like a cough drop as it whizzes toward the unfortunate goalie.

There are other players with hard slap shots in the league — Brett Hull in St. Louis, Al Iafrate in Washington, Stephane Richer in New Jersey are near the top of the list — but MacInnis's shot seems to be universally considered the scariest long - distance weapon.

Although theCup - winning goal came on Kaberle's power - play slap shot at 4:18 of the secondperiod, the rightful author of it was Cole, who began the playoffs two monthsago in a neck brace yet made a dramatic entrance into Game 6.

He added another on a slap shot that ticked off Jones» glove and went in.

The hardest slap shot in hockey soon would fly through the air.

Schenn's 300th career point came off of a Jaden Schwartz slap shot off of Bernier's pad that deflected directly to his tape.

Zadarov pulled up at the top of the left circle and unleashed a slap shot that beat Rinne at 12:57 of the first to even the score.

Less than three minutes into the first period, Braun scored on a slap shot from just inside the blue line that deflected off the arm or stick of a Colorado defender, giving Bernier no chance to adjust.

With New York's 18 - year - old rookie center Filip Chytil off for tripping, Rantanen took a pass from Nathan MacKinnon in the right circle and beat Lundqvist with a slap shot into the top right corner with 9:07 left in the first.

Stastny put in a rebound on Alex Pietrangelo's slap shot to give the Blues a 1 - 0 lead with 4:07 left in the first period.

Then on Sunday, Odgers handcuffed Red Wings goalie Chris Osgood with a 45 - foot slap shot that trickled into the net to give the Avalanche a 1 - 0 lead in Game 5 of the best - of - seven Western Conference semifinals.

New Jersey made it 3 - 0 less than two minutes later when David Clarkson circled the net, took Panthers defensemen Brian Campbell with him and dished the puck out in front to Zajac, who beat Clemmensen with a slap shot from the slot.

In the latter game Bobby Hull, who scored seven times in the five playoff games, broke a 1 - 1 tie with a 60 - foot slap shot for the winning goal with 11 minutes left to play.

This was before the innovation of the curved stick, and few players had the strength and coordination to master the slap shot.

Some of the Wings were experimenting with the slap shot — a little - used novelty young players like Boom Boom Geoffrion of the Montreal Canadiens had introduced.

During college he developed the weapon that was to become his offensive trademark: the slap shot.

Mayasich had only one practice with the U.S. team before the tournament, but he had a hat trick in the first game, against Czechoslovakia, on three unassisted slap shots.

As we have seen, if the stick ai nt workin — no slap shots, wrists shots, backhands — there's always the skate shot (sans kicking motion of course)... now for tonight — the butt shot.

First, Josi beat Matt Murray with a big slap shot from the blue line for his sixth goal of the postseason.

Gourde put the game away when he beat Glass with a slap shot low on the goaltender's glove side with 1:34 left.

Girard scored his first goal since Feb. 22 on a slap shot through traffic with 46 seconds left in the first period to give the Avs a 1 - 0 advantage.

He seems like he'd love to hit a guy in open ice and smash a few slap shots from the blue line.

His study of the slap shot, performed while he was a student at the University of Waterloo, has led to a fruitful collaboration between his present - day employer and his alma mater.

I really do think this is the best comedy revolving around hockey since the original Slap Shot.

George Roy Hill's classic Slap Shot may still hold the title as the quintessential hockey comedy, but Goon certainly deserves to be mentioned in its company, juggling charm and grit and raunch and bloody teeth with assuredness and aplomb.

After showing promise in such late -»70s efforts as Slap Shot (1977) and A Wedding (1978), Dooley made a big impression with his supporting role as the lead character's worrisome father in Breaking Away (1979).

It's being described as Slap Shot meets Superbad.

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Most pleasant surprise Goon Easily the raunchiest (and funniest) hockey comedy since Slap Shot, the gleefully vulgar Goon stars Seann William Scott as a sweet, dumb guy with a mean right hook that gets him drafted to be the enforcer for a minor - league Halifax team.

Defenders will lie out on the ice to deflect slap shots and they'll continually clog the slot.

One big kid is able to puncture hockey nets with his slap shot, but admits he doesn't know how to skate.

Somehow, though, Slap Shot just never seems to click the way those movies do.

You have to admire the casting decision of anyone who'd give a part to «Hud» himself, Paul Newman (Slap Shot, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), as the head of «Hud» (as Hudsucker Industries is occasionally referred to).

by Walter Chaw Closer in spirit to Mystery, Alaska than to the similarly Olympics - inspired Cool Runnings, Men with Brooms is an underdog sports intrigue mashed together with a bedroom farce — and neither dog - eared formula is handled with very much originality, while uncomfortable subplots concerning adultery, alcoholism, and healing father / son rifts (see also Hoosiers) vie for a level of pathos that always feels out of place in what is essentially The Bad News Bears (or The Replacements, or Slap Shot) for curling.

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I don't know how either film is gonna sell the idea of some relatively scrawny short guy like Scott or Nicholas Braun (Scott's apparent replacement for Hit Somebody) playing a bruiser convincingly without being too derivative of Slap Shot.