Since its release in 1977, the movie Slap Shot has exercised a special fascination over Quebeckers. When the film was shot, local Quebec actors got to share the screen with megastar Paul Newman. Today, the film still boasts throngs of fans, old and new, who can recite whole sections of the “québécois” dubbed version, which contains some of the most vulgar language ever uttered on screen! The film truly portrays Quebec’s national sport in all its tragicomic brutality. From Matane to Johnstown, with Yvon Barrette, who played the Chiefs’ goalie, and two brothers who now run a flourishing world-wide Slap Shot merchandising business from their home in Granby, Du hockey propre : petite histoire d’un film culte scopes out the Quebec trail of one of the greatest hockey movie classics of all times.
