There are not many films about hockey both in the domestic and world cinema horizons. However, those of them that went on the big screen in different years really deserve attention. This list of the best hockey films of all time has a wide range of feelings that, while watching, can visit both a person far from the world of sports and an avid fan. Sports excitement will overwhelm you and you will no longer be able to tear yourself away from the screen to the very credits.
10. Young blood (1986)
Dean Youngblood, a 17-year-old farmer from the New York countryside, dreams of playing in the National Hockey League. Dean voices these dreams to his father, who does not approve of this idea, but Dean's brother, Kelly, convinces their father to relent. Dean travels to Canada to try his hand at the Hamilton Mustangs race, where he demonstrates his attacking skills but shows no physical strength. Carl Racca, who is fighting for a place, draws him into battle and quickly defeats him. Despite this, the Mustang head coach, a former NHL star, takes Dean into the team.
After his team mentor Derek Sutton was deliberately injured by Raqqi, Dean returns home. His brother inspires him to continue playing, and his father teaches him some fighting skills. Dean returns to the team, ready to confront Ratzky in the final playoff game of the Memorial Cup ...
9. The mighty ducklings (1992)
Children of the 90s are most likely familiar with this picture. The first film in the “Mighty Ducks” trilogy is mainly based on real events: one youth hockey team from Minnesota is chosen to represent all of America in an international tournament where ringer children from all over the country join them ...
8. Shot on goal (1977)
Each hockey fan has a favorite moment in this, the most classic of all hockey films.
In a fictional small town of Charlestown, a local factory is about to lay off 10,000 workers, indirectly threatening the existence of a minor city hockey team, the Charlestown leaders. Having discovered that the team should be curtailed, player coach Reggie Dunlop allows the Hanson brothers, the club’s recent acquisitions, to “break” their opponents. The actively aggressive and gangster style of the game of the brothers excites the fans. Dunlop rearms the team, using violence to attract large crowds.
The new style of the team leads to unforeseen consequences that affect not only Dunlop, but also the star player “chefs” Ned Braden, as well as other members of the team. Dunlop uses Braden's family problems in his attempts to get him to take part in a team fight, but to no avail. Several games end in brawls on the bench, including one that takes place before the debut match, and another that leads the local police into the locker room to arrest the Hanson brothers ...
7. Miracle (2004)
Herb Brooks (Kurt Russell), head coach of hockey at the University of Minnesota, gives an interview to the U.S. Olympic Committee on the work of the national team coach: discusses his philosophy on how to beat the Soviet team, calls for a change in training schedule and strategy. The USOC is skeptical, but ultimately gives Brooks a job ...
6. Bouncer (2011)
Lucas is a former bodyguard who was forced to flee South Africa after the death of his wife. Now he lives with his daughter Sarah in his native Belgium and works as a bouncer in a nightclub. One night, Lucas was forced to intercede for a waitress attacked by a drunken visitor. However, Lucas is fired from work in a nightclub. To get a new job - he is forced to fight with several other applicants in the fray. And Lucas is the last person standing on his feet.
Meanwhile, due to the status of the injured patron of the nightclub, who appeared as the son of a member of the European Parliament, the identity of Lucas is being thoroughly investigated by the authorities. He is forced to work undercover in a strip club to spy on his owner, Ian, a large figure in the criminal world, or he faces criminal prosecution and imprisonment for an incident in a nightclub ...
5. Golden Ice (1992)
Kate is a world-class skater representing the United States in doubles at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. She has real talent, but the years of spoiling her rich father Jack made her impossible to work with.
Doug Dorsey is the captain of the US national hockey team at the same Winter Olympics. Just a few minutes before the start of the game, she and Kate collided in the arena. During the game, Doug gets a head injury that disturbs his peripheral vision, so he had to leave hockey to leave. During the competition, partner Kate throws her, depriving them of a chance to get a gold medal.
In preparation for the 1992 Winter Olympics, over the next two years, Kate drove away all potential partners with her attitude and perfectionism. Her coach, a native of Russia Anton Pamchenko, must find a replacement, an outsider who does not know that Kate is spoiled and difficult ...
4. The Secret of Alaska (1999)
The culmination of this 1999 film was an open-air hockey match between the residents of the Mystery and fictional New York rangers, and it turned out to be prophetic: for a decade, the NHL held regular outdoor games at low temperatures. Real New York Rangers appeared in several of them, but, unlike the film, the enemy never tried the secret weapon of the mysterious team: the comically slow performance of the national anthem performed by Little Richard to literally freeze visitors to the city in Alaska.
3. Maurice Richard (2005)
The film is about an era that many consider to be the cornerstone of NHL history. He shows the life of a “rocket,” starting from his teenage years ending a year before Richard led Montreal to an unbeatable record — winning five consecutive Stanley Cup championships.
2. The Red Army (2014)
This documentary about a powerful Soviet hockey team explores not only how it became so strong, but also how Russian players were introduced to the NHL after the fall of the Soviet Union. Most of this story is told through the eyes of the great Vyacheslav Fetisov, who opposed the Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov and was among that first wave of Russians who played in North America. It talks about how the Soviets “elevated hockey to the level of art” and forever changed the history of world hockey.
1. Legend No. 17 (2012)
This domestic picture tells about the life and sporting achievements of the legendary Soviet hockey player Valery Kharlamov. He performed on ice at number 17. His talent, incredible perseverance and hard work, he achieved the fact that he was accepted into the hockey team of the USSR and sent to the legendary match against the Canadian team. This game went down in the history of world sports, because before meeting with Soviet hockey players, Canadians considered themselves invincible ...