Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice

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Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
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Directed by	Steve Boyum
Produced by	Ron French
Written by	Nancy Dowd (Characters) Broderick Miller (Written by)
Starring	Stephen Baldwin Jessica Steen Gary Busey
Music by	John Frizzell
Cinematography	Joel Ransom
Editing by	Craig Bassett
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	2002 (US)
Running time	96 min.
Country	US
Language	English
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Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice is a 2002 direct-to-video film starring Stephen Baldwin and Gary Busey and directed by Steve Boyum. The film is the sequel to the 1977 film Slap Shot .

[edit] Plot synopsis

25 years after the events of the first film, the minor-league hockey team Charlestown Chiefs are still languishing in West Virginia. A new player/coach, Sean Linden (Baldwin), has taken over from Reggie Dunlop, and the team's violence has become the Chiefs' hallmark as Sean Linden does not try to control the "old time hockey" trio of the Hanson Brothers. After only 10 wins in two years the team is bought by a family entertainment corporation called Better America, run by an executive named Richmond Claremont (Gary Busey). The team is moved to Nebraska and given a new (female) coach. The team soon finds out that Richmond Claremont intends to use the Chiefs as the team which plays and loses in scripted games against a Harlem Globetrotters type team named the Omaha IceBreakers in an attempt by Dean Claremont to make the game suitable for a family audience.

The "Super Chiefs" lose the Hanson brothers when a fight breaks out between the two teams. After the fight Claremont bribes Linden to change the team's attitude and then leave. Linden succeeds into talking the Chiefs into supporting the "fake" game for higher pay and better exposure. He then leaves. He comes back after remembering his love for the game and talks the "Super Chiefs" into their old ways. The Chiefs with the Hanson brothers back begin crushing the Icebreakers. The Chiefs win and Claremont is furious and threatens to sue, but can't because he no longer owns the Chiefs... the recent lottery winning Hanson Brothers do. The movie ends with the Hansons saying the team is going to play the great old-time hockey like their idols.

[edit] Miscellany

This movie's plot was inspired by the Fox network's glowing puck.^{[citation needed]}

Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice received a 0% "rotten" rating at Rotten Tomatoes (i.e unanimous negative reviews) whereas the original Slap Shot received an 87% "Fresh" rating.