Among the problems with this movie (and the series) in depicting hockey (ie. lack of penalty calls on hacking, etc.), the funniest has to be how they make Iceland a hockey super-power. Really? It could have been almost anyone else, and should have been either Russia or Canada. I almost shat my pants when the Ducks took down Canada without breaking a sweat (all you see is the newspaper clipping). Classic from my childhood, but wow, come on.
shareI don't get why they even bothered showing Trinidad and Tobago what a joke.
And they obviously would have made Russia the main bad guy but they didn't want cold war politics to get in the way, even though this came out in like 94 it was still a touchy subject lol.
Iceland acted like how Russian teams and athletes always did in 80s movies-think Ivan Drago, cold heartless unfair, but then in the end the underdog scrappy americans pull out the win and win the cold Russian's respect.
Just pretend that Iceland is Russia, and Gunnar Stahl's name is Igor Kovalev or something and all your problems with this movie will go away.
My biggest problem is how the *beep* scrubs like goldberg, averman and luis who doesn't even know how to stop, a basic skill of hockey, and skating in general, could make team USA