Practicing stick-handling with an egg, rollerblading through a mall, and recruiting homeless kids with mean
slap shots, are just a few of the unconventional coaching techniques used by former Pee-Wee legend Gordon Bombay. After Gordon's Pee-Wee career ran its course, he hung up his skates and turned to a prosperous life of litigating. Gordon not only attained a reputation as a great attorney, but he proudly boasted that he never actually lost a case, which makes it all the more confusing why he wasn't able to weasel this way out of doing community service, after he was cited for a DUI.
Now I never played hockey, but in my experiences playing Little League Baseball, Basketball and Soccer, it seemed like the coaches were always one of the player's dads, rather than a convict reluctantly taking the job to avoid jail time. That just goes to show you how hardcore hockey is. Gordon Bombay has the unfortunate task of taking over District 5 (The Ducks), which was the weakest district of all. Even after the addition of Fulton and the snide recruitment of Adam Banks, the team needed work. They weren't prepared to take on teams like the Hawks, and showed no indication that they soon would be.
So, why did Bombay do it? Why didn't he just turn down the assignment, and volunteer at The Salvation Army or something? You could argue that he missed the game. You could argue that he wanted revenge on the head coach of the Hawks, his former coach who shamed him, after he missed that huge penalty shot 15 years earlier in front of 6 people. Both of those assumptions would be wrong, though. He did it, so he could bang that kid Charlie's mom. That was the only reason.
Overall Rating 9 out of 10 - Dramatic Hockey scenes intertwined with outstanding comic relief from Goldberg and Abraman make this a cult classic.
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