Them Punks From Syracuse

While they aren't the Bulldogs, the Syracuse Crunch will honour Paul Newman by retiring Reg Dunlop's Chiefs jersey this weekend. It is a wonderful gesture (and a guaranteed sell-out) and every hockey team should do the same as Slap Shot's impact was universal. Dunlop, you don't stink!

And The Winner Is ...

By a large margin:


She's a lesbian. A lesbian!!!!!!

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In honour of Paul Newman's passing, there is a new poll on the right side of the page to select his best line in Slap Shot. Feel free to select one of those few I picked or add a different one in the comments here. The winner will be the "Slap Shot Quote Of The Week" for the first month of the season. R.I.P. Reg ...

R.I.P. Reg

As it was match day here in England, the news of Paul Newman's death escaped me until now but I felt obligated to pop up and say something. As you can see by the quote of the week feature that I have had on this blog from the start, I love(d) Slap Shot. It was a great movie with a lotta laughs and hockey, most of which came courtesy of a certain Paul Newman. I also loved The Hustler and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I also liked Newman's salad dressing and his racing team, but not loved, but that doesn't matter. The fact is that Reg Dunlop is gone, but at least we have him on film so we can go back to it to enjoy him and his antics again and again (and again and again and again and again and even make up some new ones).

The really creepy thing about Newman's passing is that I was killing time Thursday evening in a book store and I picked up his biography of all things to see what was said about Slap Shot and the next day he passed.

*shudder* Creepy.

His bio is worth reading because it explains how Al Pacino was considered for the Dunlop role but Newman knew how to skate. Wild, huh? Could you imagine Serpico in Slap Shot?? Eesh.

The job went to Newman and Slap Shot became another great movie among the plethora that was graced by his skilled acting. RIP Reg and don't worry, we'll keep passing along your motivational words even though you are gone ...

Old time hockey!!