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Located in the US Rust Belt, Charlestown is home of the hapless Chiefs, a losing Federal League hockey team whose games are poorly attended. To make money, the teams unknown owner makes its manager, Joe McGrath, do cheesy publicity much to the players chagrin. Rumors abound among the players that if the local mill closes, the team will fold. Just before the official announcement is made, the teams aging player/coach, Reggie Dunlop, does get wind that the mill is indeed closing and that this season will be the teams last. Beyond efforts to reconcile with his wife Francine, who loves Reggie but doesnt love his career, Reggie begins to focus on how to renew interest in the team for a possible sale as he knows if the team folds, his hockey career is over. Without telling anyone of his plan, he begins a rumor that the owner is negotiating a sale with a city in Florida. He also decides that "goon" hockey - most especially using the untapped talents of the recently acquired childlike but quietly menacing Hanson brothers - is the way to renew local interest. It works as the team begins to attract new fans, sell out games, sell out away games attended largely by their groupies, and win, which does fuel the rumor of a sale. The one team member who doesnt like this new style is Ned Braden, a college graduate who plays the game solely because he loves it. His hockey career is against the wishes of his tomboyish wife, Lily, who hates everything about Charlestown and being a hockey wife. Reggies goal of winning the league championship and having the team sold takes a turn when he finally meets the teams owner and discovers the owners motivations. Ned, with his own views of what is right and wrong in hockey, may come up with an unexpected way to achieve all their goals.
Facing closure at the end of the season, Pennsylvanias pathetic minor-league ice-hockey team, the Charlestown Chiefs, find themselves stuck in a long losing streak. But, under those circumstances, and refusing to throw in the towel, the experienced coach, Reggie Dunlop, enlists the help of the clubs newest players, the dauntless Hanson Brothers, who specialise in foul play. Now, as the revitalised Chiefs return to winning ways, its star player, Ned Braden, insists on playing fair, refusing to goon it up. Will the Charlestown Chiefs win the decisive championship game against their feared opponents, the Syracuse Bulldogs?
Paul Newman
Reggie
Michael Ontkean
Ned Braden
Strother Martin
McGrath
Jennifer Warren
Francine
Lindsay Crouse
Lily
Jerry Houser
Killer Carlson
Andrew Duncan
Jim Carr
Jeff Carlson
Jeff Hanson
Steve Carlson
Steve Hanson
David Hanson
Jack Hanson
Yvon Barrette
Denis Lemieux
Allan F. Nicholls
Upton
Brad Sullivan
Wanchuk
Stephen Mendillo
Jim Ahern
Yvan Ponton
Drouin
Matthew Cowles
Charlie
Kathryn Walker
Anita McCambridge
Melinda Dillon
Suzanne
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