6 best hockey films

There is no shortage of great hockey movies. It doesn't matter if you're partial to goals or fights, Olympics or skaters, old school or newbies, if you're a hockey fan, there is the perfect movie for you, and these are the top 10.

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1. Destroyer.

The only professional team sport that allows combat action, hockey is a brutal full-contact game. Dirty and dangerous games happen all the time, which is why most teams have an enforcer - a player who informally responds to dirty games in an even more aggressive or violent way in order to prevent the continuation of such games. But how will this affect the psyche of the security officer if he inflicted irreparable harm on another player? This issue is at the center of Destroyer's research into systemic and institutionalized violence. The film was nominated for four major Canadian Screen Awards, the most prestigious awards in Canadian television and film.

2. Mighty ducklings.

In Disney's The Powerful Ducklings, Emilio Estevez as Gordon Bombay, a self-centered Minnesota lawyer sentenced to community service training for young hockey players after being arrested for drunk driving.

3. Mystery of Alaska.

This is not the Alaskan noir storyline that the title might suggest: Mystery of Alaska follows an amateur hockey team in Mystery, a small fictional Alaskan town obsessed with a weekly pond hockey game that locals play every Saturday.

4. Legend number 17.

The plot, which has won several prestigious Russian film awards, tells the story of the life and career of Valery Kharlamov (Danila Kozlovsky), one of the greatest players in the history of Soviet hockey.

5. Youngblood.

In Young Blood, Rob Lowe plays a 17-year-old farm boy named Dean Youngblood who dreams of playing professional hockey. Need another reason to watch this movie? When young Youngblood is given the chance to try his hand at a team in Canada, his fast skating earns him a spot despite his lack of physical stamina.

6. Miracle.

There are all the other hockey films, and then there is Miracle, which tells the story of a team of motley American college hockey players who fought the highly-backed Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War at the 1980 Olympics. The most frustrated and most important game in American ice hockey history.