Ice Hockey in Movies, Television, and Music

Copyright (c) 2013 Alex Jacob

Hockey has really made a stand in movies and like all of the major sports; hockey plays a prominence duty in American pop culture. Though it is the least most popular sport, a minority Hollywood films have been made about hockey. Like the 1984 film Youngblood when the sport concerning hockey was at its peak during the late 70s and through the 80s and then when 1992 was when the Extensive Ducks was released to introduce hockey to a new generation of sports enthusiasts. Either way the sport has made itself profitable in celluloid to have people interested especially the hockey fans that didn’t get the recognition before the films were made astir this sport. Hockey also crossed over into American television from shows parity Cheers to Home Improvement and even NYPD Blue with characters either making references to being fans of hockey or having something in their environment to disclose the audience that they like the sport. Modern shows like Rescue Me featured quantity scenes of people playing hockey as a part of a charity event.

Hockey is too popular in Canada that it’s a very important part of Canadian culture. It always features Canadian-produced shows and furthermore it’s commenced a new genre from reality and scripted shows since the United States hasn’t indeed attempted to create a reality show about the pastime of Hockey since they’ve covered everything from law enforcement to talent shows, but not the sport of hockey. Film director Kevin Smith who’s a big hockey winnow always manages to add in portion reference to the sport in his films Mallrats, Jersey Girl, and a couple others it’s kind concerning like Mackerel Lee using the technique of the background moving to make it look like the race are walking and in gabfest or thought it’s type of like Smith’s characteristic coating making technique. Yet hockey is still refusal roughly as popular comme il faut basketball, baseball, tennis, soccer, and golf, but it’s slowly coming inside its own.

Cartoons have come into making hockey a bifid of it’s story lines equal Peanuts where Snoopy who’s well known by any one who’s a fan like the Peanuts cartoon that he loves ice hockey and many comic strip frames feature him playing the sport with his constant playmate Woodstock. The only other cartoon that had a reference to hockey was in the show The Simpsons where Lisa was playing in a hockey match. Hockey has and stepped into the world about music as well with known singers like Warren Zevon and Stompin’ Tom Connors. Hockey has been an integral part of American and Canadian culture in some way mold and form, but it has boosted the popularity of the sport among the people who are fans of it greatly and it will continue to rise in years to come. It’s usually those who live in cold climates that will treasure such a sport thus hockey. Hockey’s history spans many years, but in Canada it’s a alley like life just as football and basketball are a way of life in America, Canadians appreciate the behavior and how it brings people revealed to have a good tour and enjoy a sporting event that’s a national pastime like baseball.

For most Canadians its hockey and beer exactly how Americans like their shark sports games and the majority of the hockey movies made was around the time Hollywood was going through that time where films were ontology made around sports, books, video games, songs, and historical time periods. The Mighty Ducks was the most recent in the last 15 years of a rehashing about hockey themed movies.