A cult classic, acclaimed as 'one of the top ten sports movies ever', this irreverent and outrageously funny look into the world of professional ice hockey has Paul Newman as the coach of the chiefs, a third-rate minor league hockey team.

To build up attendance at their games, management signs up three odd looking players whose job it is to literally attack and pulverise the opposition, to the delight and cheers o a steadily increasing throng of fans.

Slapshot's hockey sequences, reminiscent of the football games in M.A.S.H., The Longest Yard and the gruesome Rollerball, offer a freewheeling mixture of slapstick horror and grisly violence.