Sentences with phrase «slap shot»

He seems like he'd love to hit a guy in open ice and smash a few slap shots from the blue line.
The hardest slap shot in hockey soon would fly through the air.
Okay that was a stretch, but your family won't care as they're flicking the stick and slapping shots into the net like it's no big thing.
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.
It's being described as Slap Shot meets Superbad.
by Walter Chaw The best hockey movie since Slap Shot and the most pleasant and well - meaning Canuck - sploitation flick since Strange Brew, Michael Dowse's Goon is a prime example of how to make an insightful guy - movie without indulging in the cheap scatology of American Pie and its offspring.
The tournament MVP, Miller is a 6» 2» beanpole with a preternatural calm that, U.S. general manager Brian Burke suggested, made him the anti-- Denis Lemieux, the flopping and frustrated goalie from the movie Slap Shot.
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.
Here's the back story: a year ago, he released Goon — basically an update of the 1977 hockey classic Slap Shot with violence and profanity escalated for a jaded 21st - century young male audience.
Thirty years after Slap Shot vaulted three minor league tough guys into hockey immortality, they're still playing their parts.
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The Hall of Fame defenseman with the fearsome slap shot led all postseason scorers with 31 points in 22 games.
Federer even scored a goal off of a nice slap shot.
he had such an undeniably special slap shot though, who and what would I make it about for the current team?
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.
Schenn's 300th career point came off of a Jaden Schwartz slap shot off of Bernier's pad that deflected directly to his tape.
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.
First, Josi beat Matt Murray with a big slap shot from the blue line for his sixth goal of the postseason.
I really do think this is the best comedy revolving around hockey since the original Slap Shot.
Defenders will lie out on the ice to deflect slap shots and they'll continually clog the slot.
If you like crude sports comedies like Kingpin, Major League, Caddyshack, Blades of Glory, and the aforementioned Slap Shot, Goon should probably be well worth a spin in your DVD or Blu - ray player.
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Beauvillier then deflected Johnny Boychuk's slap shot from the right point with his 16th at 4:36.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Yakupov got off a powerful slap shot that rocketed past Bishop and into the net with a fraction of a second to spare.
The debris had been cleared, all the peat moss, the bus parts, the torn roof, the blood stains, the scattered clothes and spilled equipment, even the broken DVD of the movie Slap Shot that was found lying in the mud.
... Lightning D Dan Girardi, hit on the back of the neck by a slap shot Jan. 7 against Detroit, was back in the lineup.
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.
He was skating weird after his slap shot on the power play
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.
The Blackhawks battled back, and Brendan Morrison beat Smith with a slap shot midway through the period.
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.
The slap shot is hockey's flashiest weapon and the one which brings the roars from the crowds.
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.
Unfortunately for the Penguins, they had some bad luck when defenseman Brooks Orpik fired a slap shot that appeared to be deflected by an Islanders» stick.
As Young points out, in 1988, when Lemieux scored a career - high 199 points and before his back problems, he used the slap shot quite a bit.
He beat goalies good and bad; in one three - game stretch he faced the Montreal Canadiens» superb Patrick Roy twice, scoring two goals and adding three assists, and nearly turned the Buffalo Sabres» so - so Daren Puppa back into a larva by scoring with a slap shot.
He added another on a slap shot that ticked off Jones» glove and went in.
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.
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