Mostly real professional players here... First guy is an actor, second fellow is Connie Madigan who played a long time and played a little bit in the NHL with the Blues, Third man is Joe Nolan who was a minor leaguer in the 50s and really was banned for life- but for gambling, Fourth fellow is Mark Bousquet who was a minor leaguer for the Philadelphia team in the NAHL, fifth fellow is Blake Ball - a legendary minor league cannibal from the old EHL, last guy is Ned Dowd, the brother of Nancy Dowd who wrote this film and was a real life player for the Johnstown Jets, the team the Chiefs are modeled on
There's a few other name guys in there in some of the game action sequences during the film... I know Bruce Boudreau is in there and a some other players from the NAHL/EHL like John Gofton (who played the drunk player Brophy) ... The guy who played the vain blonde guy was Guido Tenesi, a teammate of the Carlsons and Dave Hanson and Dowd on the Johnstown Jets
Connie “mad dog” Madigan. A brawler in the old Western Hockey League with the Portland Buckaroos. Loved to see him brawl against my hometown team, the San Diego Gulls. Old time hockey bro.
Watching this for the thousandth time with buds on whilst rocking my nine month-old to sleep... And losing my shit laughing all over again and almost waking her up in the process.
The guy who played Poodle was one of my HS hockey coaches. Had no idea until way after I graduated. I guess they were looking for extras who could skate and he said yes
@@Cha-y412Melinda Dillion was a great actress who was also in ‘Absence of Malice’ another great Paul Newman movie. In fact she was his favorite actress and the only one that Paul’s wife Joanne Woodward would let Paul do a nude scene with!
Fun Fact: The 3 guys playing the Hansen brothers were actual professional hockey players who were playing for the North American Hockey League's Johnstown Jets. The original plan was to have all 3 Carlson brothers play the Hansen's but Jack Carlson got called up to play for the Edmonton Oilers then of the WHA so they substituted teammate Dave Hansen. Their teammate Ned Dowd, the brother of the woman who wrote the screenplay, played Ogie Oglethorpe. Many players in the NAHL were in the movie. All 3 Hansen brothers played in the WHA, NHL, or both.
At 2:12--2:22, THE shortest version of the Star Spangled Banner I've EVER heard!! LMFAO!! THE greatest sports movie from 1977 EVER made in ANY century!! Where can I get the FULL movie??
@@stephenm8725 it's sped up. Most of background scene and live crowd scenes were sped up to make it "more livelier ". I'm born an raised in Johnstown, started my skating lessons at 3 years old in 1986. Played all my life in that same "Cambria County War Memorial " and now so do my sons! Though they've upgraded the arena it still has that same feeling and look from these days with modern scoreboard and better seating than those old wolden seats.
@@stephenm8725 i think 2 of the 3 hansons still live here and know Steve. Dave recently moved to Pittsburgh area about 1hr west for a college hockey arena management. Funny thing is our current NAHL team are called the Johnstown Tomahawks after remembering Clarence "Screaming Buffalo" Swamptown.
Not far off from the AHL in the early-mid 70s. Goon squad Richmond Robins were the Philadelphia Flyers #1 affiliate and the Virginia Wings (Norfolk) were the Detroit Red Wings # 1 farm team. Packed buildings for this rivalry. One mayhem-on-ice fighting team vs one fast-skating team. I was there for many of them. The Richmond Robins even looked like this Syracuse line-up! Many of the Robins became a part of those Stanley Cup winning Broad Street Bullies soon enough...
It was brilliant the way this movie built up the legend of Ogie Oglethorpe throughout the film! And then to finally see this surely dude with an afro skate out there..and hear the fear in the Chief's voices..JEEZ! Great payoff!
"Reg, Reg, that reminds me. I was coachin' in Omaha in 1948 and Eddie Shore sends me this guy who was a terrible masturbator, you know, couldn't control himself. Why, he would get deliberate penalties so he could get over in the penalty box all by himself and damned if he wouldn't... you know..."
To be fair, "TOY Poodles" are the joke dog. Try pissing off an actual full breed poodle. Those things are large, fairly muscular, fiercely protective of their masters, and MEAN AS HELL. Take it from a former gas meter reader, I know...
@@EXRazeBurn Toy Poodles are just as much a "full breed" Poodle as a Standard and share the same DNA; they are not bred with different breeds to get the smaller size, as in the case of Giant to Miniature Schnauzers. And I'm sure that any Toy poodle has more intelligence than you. I grew up with and they were the best dogs that I've ever known.
I love Mad Dog Madison's appearance...middle fingers all around! Today he would probably be fined, ousted, and forced to apologize or retire. I'm so sick of the PC BS that has infiltrated the game.
That "PC BS" is nothing more than management trying to maximize their earnings by not angering "good christians" who live in fear of their progeny being turned into social liabilities when there's cursing. It was the same "PC BS" which had this film rated R. It was the same "PC BS" which kept you from actually seeing Johnny Upton wave his johnson around at the fashion show. Sure, you're an "adult" and a middle finger on the ice doesn't phase you - and then the kids start doing it at their teachers or at grandma's dinner table and you "sick of PC BS" folk lose your minds because your stupid kids are acting like vulgarian idiots because they saw it at the game. I once had a coach pop me in the mid 1970's because I flipped off a classmate. That was real PC of him way back then.
Thanks for enlightening me - as many times as I have watched this, I never exactly got what Jim Carr was saying when he introduced Poodle - I never understood the 2 words just before "tragedy" as "Denny Pratt" - I was just never sure what he was saying. Thanks.
The Flyers had just won Two Cups in 74 and 75 by "gooning it up" Dave Shultz, Bob Kelly. Moose DuPont and Don "Big Bird" Saleski. And Bobby Clarke, the star of the team. was the dirtiest.
“I thought he’d been suspended forever”
That line gets me every time
Lemieuxs reaction to Oglethorpe is like a grade school kid witnessing the schools biggest bully enter the room.
Every youth hockey program in the Philadelphia area sees this film as a tutorial.
LMAO
That's great
You are made to watch this as soon as you can walk in Canada
Running a donut shop in Mile 40 Saskatchewan may be the most Canadian thing ever.............
Real Tim Hortons vibe
Roll up the rim to win!!!
"...former penalty minute leader of the Federal League for the years 1960-1968 inclusive..."
One of my favorite lines of all time.
the way jim carr reads it is hilarious. he was a scene stealer ..him and his rug..i still watch this dvd once a week
I love Ross"MADDOG" Madison's entrance,removing his glove and giving the crowd the finger...lol
Of.cpurse he never travels anywhere without his friend and longtime attorney Sam "small print" Lyman
Someone at my high school did that at a pep rally.
Sandy McCarthy flipped the crowd when he got ejected
You know it's a seriously bad group of dudes when even one of their lawyers is notorious enough to have a nickname.
Mostly real professional players here... First guy is an actor, second fellow is Connie Madigan who played a long time and played a little bit in the NHL with the Blues, Third man is Joe Nolan who was a minor leaguer in the 50s and really was banned for life- but for gambling, Fourth fellow is Mark Bousquet who was a minor leaguer for the Philadelphia team in the NAHL, fifth fellow is Blake Ball - a legendary minor league cannibal from the old EHL, last guy is Ned Dowd, the brother of Nancy Dowd who wrote this film and was a real life player for the Johnstown Jets, the team the Chiefs are modeled on
Clogg Ned Dowd played Ogie
Correct
Clogg they needed people who could skate so they brought in minor league players
There's a few other name guys in there in some of the game action sequences during the film... I know Bruce Boudreau is in there and a some other players from the NAHL/EHL like John Gofton (who played the drunk player Brophy) ... The guy who played the vain blonde guy was Guido Tenesi, a teammate of the Carlsons and Dave Hanson and Dowd on the Johnstown Jets
Connie “mad dog” Madigan. A brawler in the old Western Hockey League with the Portland Buckaroos. Loved to see him brawl against my hometown team, the San Diego Gulls. Old time hockey bro.
"His sudden deportation to Canada and that country's refusal to take him back" I thought they were talking about Justin bieber
hahahahahah
That's F...In Funny!
mrtequilashooter I thought he was talking about the liberal celebrities who are afraid of President Trump 🤣
What about Miley "Slutty" Cyrus?
@@tednugent-hopkis must dumbasses like you ALWAYS bring politics into any conversation? you certainly have a one track feeble mind! Get a life!!!
Tuttle "We'll straighten you out ya little prick..." lol
Watching this for the thousandth time with buds on whilst rocking my nine month-old to sleep... And losing my shit laughing all over again and almost waking her up in the process.
Best line in the movie!!!!!!
Dr Hook was Canadian comic book artist John Byrne's visual inspiration for when he created the Wolverine character.
You'll be saddened to know that the guy who played McCracken, Paul D'Amato, passed away February 19, 2024.
"From Mile 40 Saskatchewan, where he's now running a doughnut shop".
He probably got inspired by Tim Horton.
Literally Jon Mirasty, just 35 years before
Cant get more Canadian than that.
“Now that dave is out, who’ll take his place?”
“Would the answer be Jesus?”
Greatest line ever in a movie!!!
But not Dave
Dave was there
Dave's a killer
Dave's a mess
Here's to all that gorgeous snatch in FLA....
It isn't about art it's about sex!
I tell u she was an underwater specialist
Morris
. You make me sick when you open your mouth
I remember bein a little kid watching this when it came out and having no idea what that meant...lol
Most of the movie was filmed in Johnstown PA in 1976. My kids babysitters were both in the band in the stands as extras for the movie.
My parents are from that area and I swear the old lady with the opera glasses at the end of the movie is my great aunt
Buddies and I skipped school to be extras in the stands for the game scenes filmed in Syracuse at the Onondaga County War Memorial.
“Buy you a soda after the game” 😂
"Hi, Ogie! Buy you a soda after the game!" may just be one of the most underrated lines in the movie, to me. It's such a perfect reversal.
Screaming Buffalo pointing at the Chiefs bench and giving the "scalping" gesture! Absolutely menacing!!!!! CLASSIC!
The guy who played Poodle was one of my HS hockey coaches. Had no idea until way after I graduated. I guess they were looking for extras who could skate and he said yes
Greatest hockey movie ever!!!!
Total classic. I always found it funny that Hanrahans wife was the same actress who played the mother in A Christmas Story.
And Close Encounters of The Third Kind. She played the mother whose son was abducted.
Melinda Dillion RIP 2023
@@Cha-y412Melinda Dillion was a great actress who was also in ‘Absence of Malice’ another great Paul Newman movie. In fact she was his favorite actress and the only one that Paul’s wife Joanne Woodward would let Paul do a nude scene with!
I love how the band can't wait for the start of the game. They play faster and faster
Dude that’s the funniest scene in the entire movie - the first time I saw that I was CRYING
Fun Fact: The 3 guys playing the Hansen brothers were actual professional hockey players who were playing for the North American Hockey League's Johnstown Jets. The original plan was to have all 3 Carlson brothers play the Hansen's but Jack Carlson got called up to play for the Edmonton Oilers then of the WHA so they substituted teammate Dave Hansen. Their teammate Ned Dowd, the brother of the woman who wrote the screenplay, played Ogie Oglethorpe. Many players in the NAHL were in the movie. All 3 Hansen brothers played in the WHA, NHL, or both.
I saw Steve Carlson play for the Baltimore Skipjacks in the AHL against the Rochester Americans!
They don't call me Mad Dr Hook for nothing...
How ya doing 🤣🤣🤣
RIP Connie Madigan, aka Mad Dog Madison.
My favorite is Gilmore Tuttle (Blake Ball). He was the most convincing of all the thugs. lol
Blake Ball was a certified goon in real life.
not too old to straighten you out, you little prrick
@@erictoniaschwab1009 he straightened out those lettle precks eh🤣🤣🤣
Also a great shimmy, stepping onto the ice. Easy to kick the back of your leading skate when trying to copy that aged 14.
Or so they tell me...
The way he CACKLES as he's wailing on one of the Chiefs is funny as hell!
At 2:12--2:22, THE shortest version of the Star Spangled Banner I've EVER heard!! LMFAO!! THE greatest sports movie from 1977 EVER made in ANY century!! Where can I get the FULL movie??
I got my dvd online. just noticed it was played so short
@@stephenm8725 it's sped up. Most of background scene and live crowd scenes were sped up to make it "more livelier ". I'm born an raised in Johnstown, started my skating lessons at 3 years old in 1986. Played all my life in that same "Cambria County War Memorial " and now so do my sons! Though they've upgraded the arena it still has that same feeling and look from these days with modern scoreboard and better seating than those old wolden seats.
@@stephenm8725 i think 2 of the 3 hansons still live here and know Steve. Dave recently moved to Pittsburgh area about 1hr west for a college hockey arena management.
Funny thing is our current NAHL team are called the Johnstown Tomahawks after remembering Clarence "Screaming Buffalo" Swamptown.
@@TM-bn8pv wow, cool info. Saw a Chiefs jersey recently!
Even better than the Hendrix version of the Star Spangled Banner.
I love the fact that housewives are at the entrance with their purses handy and the "Cat Calls" chirping.
"The little scalps."
Not far off from the AHL in the early-mid 70s. Goon squad Richmond Robins were the Philadelphia Flyers #1 affiliate and the Virginia Wings (Norfolk) were the Detroit Red Wings # 1 farm team. Packed buildings for this rivalry. One mayhem-on-ice fighting team vs one fast-skating team. I was there for many of them. The Richmond Robins even looked like this Syracuse line-up! Many of the Robins became a part of those Stanley Cup winning Broad Street Bullies soon enough...
Ross "Mad Dog" Madison with the greatest entrance of all time!
“They don’t call me Dr. Hook for nothing.”
“How ya doin? 😃”
"Buy you a soda after the game?" :)
"None of that stinkin' root beer!"
Ogie wanted a root beer. Hence the fight.
Of course Andre has been living in semi seclusion ever since the unfortunate Denny Pratt tragedy
Not Poodle!
... in northern Québec... :-)
@@DEthe5150 The only comment from that guy, in the whole movie, that had nothing to do with women and sex!
Not Poodle!
“Hi. You know Toe Blake?”
REEK no?
Greatest sports comedy.....ever.
Jeff Carlson has the sweetest smile in the northern hemisphere.
"I thought he was suspended forever". "Not Poodle"
It was brilliant the way this movie built up the legend of Ogie Oglethorpe throughout the film! And then to finally see this surely dude with an afro skate out there..and hear the fear in the Chief's voices..JEEZ! Great payoff!
Sam Small Print Lyman!!What a great Lawer..
It's all goodman
Boy I would like to try the donuts from mile 40 Saskatchewan ...
"Denny Pratt tragedy" ..."How"...Great movie! The new NHL sucks!!!!
2:41 You vs. the guy she tells you not to worry about.
2:02 Steve Hanson’s shit eating grin when Oglethorpe is introduced 😅
"Reg, Reg, that reminds me. I was coachin' in Omaha in 1948 and Eddie Shore sends me this guy who was a terrible masturbator, you know, couldn't control himself. Why, he would get deliberate penalties so he could get over in the penalty box all by himself and damned if he wouldn't... you know..."
Who own da Chiefs? Owns, owns....
Call Detroit! Tell them bullshit!
Jon Marr ownzz ownzz ownz
Your forgetting to put the h in front
Who hone da chief. the s is not used for plural in french its les
@@hillbilly23 The hair....it make me sick!
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Tuttle, "I am goin to straighten you out, you little prick".
“They don’t call me Dr. Hook for nothing”
“How ya doin?”
"Now running a donut shop.... Gaylord Tuttle"
Gilmore
theofay lol Gaylord?
Screaming Buffalo Swamptown gets me everytime
If your nickname is "Poodle" you have to be tough. lol
To be fair, "TOY Poodles" are the joke dog. Try pissing off an actual full breed poodle. Those things are large, fairly muscular, fiercely protective of their masters, and MEAN AS HELL. Take it from a former gas meter reader, I know...
@@EXRazeBurn Toy Poodles are just as much a "full breed" Poodle as a Standard and share the same DNA; they are not bred with different breeds to get the smaller size, as in the case of Giant to Miniature Schnauzers. And I'm sure that any Toy poodle has more intelligence than you. I grew up with and they were the best dogs that I've ever known.
This movie was a classic and did well with box office sales.
I love Mad Dog Madison's appearance...middle fingers all around! Today he would probably be fined, ousted, and forced to apologize or retire. I'm so sick of the PC BS that has infiltrated the game.
That "PC BS" is nothing more than management trying to maximize their earnings by not angering "good christians" who live in fear of their progeny being turned into social liabilities when there's cursing. It was the same "PC BS" which had this film rated R. It was the same "PC BS" which kept you from actually seeing Johnny Upton wave his johnson around at the fashion show. Sure, you're an "adult" and a middle finger on the ice doesn't phase you - and then the kids start doing it at their teachers or at grandma's dinner table and you "sick of PC BS" folk lose your minds because your stupid kids are acting like vulgarian idiots because they saw it at the game. I once had a coach pop me in the mid 1970's because I flipped off a classmate. That was real PC of him way back then.
2:55 Has anyone else read the story about how this guy influenced John Byrne's interpretation of Wolverine?
It’s so funny at the end of the video when the guy gets chased by the Indian
“Ogiltorp” 😆😅😂🤣
LOL the Hansons are just happy to see them haha, "How ya doin!"
2:49 The dude that Wolverine is based off of.
Where’s the Denny Pratt explanation... it’s just the scene from the movie... doesn’t explain what happened with poodle and Pratt
Ogelthorpe looks like Chris Benoit with an afro
Think this is the Johnstown war memorial where some of the movie was filmed
wrong
@@jasonmonto4445
No. You’re wrong. It is the War Memorial in good Ol Jtown
Oglethorpe's Afro in 1977 was as good as Dr. J's !
The seventies hair styles are one of the best things in this movie!
2:52 - The face that inspired one of my favorite versions of Wolverine.
Not Poodle!?!?!?!?!
Entertainment for the whole family!
Ive watched rhis scene a hundred times and find it funnier each time.
OK...who is the blonde to the left of the oncoming players??!! She's HOT!!! And she knows it...
@Rob DeAbreu She just looks different to me...I've seen the movie a billion times- and seen it in its first run at a theater!!
Thanks for enlightening me - as many times as I have watched this, I never exactly got what Jim Carr was saying when he introduced Poodle - I never understood the 2 words just before "tragedy" as "Denny Pratt" - I was just never sure what he was saying. Thanks.
" NOT POODLE!"
we'll straten yu out ya lil preek . LMAO
This is my favorite seen from this movie.
Mike Millbury approves this scene -- heck, the whole movie.
“Big afro, 21-22, watch out for HIM!”
Who's the player coming out behind Ogie?, he never gets an introduction or camera time.
Probably "Dr. Hook"
one hour into 2025 and here i am , what a classic
Since Mad Dog is there, perhaps Poodle could avail himself of the services of Mad Dog’s friend, Sam “Small Print” Lyman. 😁
Tuttle's Donuts (Great T-Shirt)
“I thought he’d been suspended forever?”
The no helmets of the era was insane.
And the ice seemed less slippery?
They don't make classics like this ever, and haven't in decades which sux
Syracuse bringing in the bad mofos.
Thank you for explaining the Denis Pratt tragedy.
The last seconds were heaven
Tim "Dr. Hook" McCracken!
That's a funny name and nickname to boot. XD
"SCOUTS?????"
Just incidental that the colours somewhat remind me of the Philadelphia Flyers?
The Flyers had just won Two Cups in 74 and 75 by "gooning it up" Dave Shultz, Bob Kelly. Moose DuPont and Don "Big Bird" Saleski. And Bobby Clarke, the star of the team. was the dirtiest.
Dr. Hook looks like Charlie Manson, great casting!
@mattrocks agree. BEST short quote in the movie
....the unfortunate Denny Pratt incident.....
Reminds me of the line ups of the Kalamazoo Wings of the ole IHL!
Such a classic
Yeah YOU'LL have quiet!
I thought he'd been suspended forever
Could they do a remake of this?
Yeah I’m sure a woke version would be box office gold.
Why mess with perfection?
Hi. You know Toe Blake?
Lol all the Bulldogs hair doe
Who played the game commentator / dude that's reading off the roster
My Favorite scene next to the Hanson Brothers debut.