🎥🏒On February 25, 1977 the classic hockey comedy “Slap Shot” was released in theaters! Directed by George Roy Hill, written by Nancy Dowd and starring Paul Newman, Strother Martin and Michael Ontkean. Slap Shot depicts a minor league ice hockey team named the Charlestown Chiefs that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a declining factory town. Dowd based much of her script, as well as several of the characters, on her brother Ned Dowd's playing experiences on 1970s minor league profe

11K views · 115 reactions | #VIDEO: PAUL NEWMAN TALKS ABOUT ‘SLAP SHOT’: Actor Paul Newman, the aging player/coach known as Reggie Dunlop of the Charlestown Chiefs hockey team in the iconic movie “Slap Shot,” talks about the film and Johnstown in interviews from WJAC-TV's archives. “Slap Shot” was filmed in the city in the spring of 1976 and made its debut on the big screen on Feb. 25, 1977. The movie turns 40 Saturday. | WJAC-TV News | Facebook

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