Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) is a successful Minneapolis
defense attorney, whose truculent courtroom antics have earned him no
respect among his peers. After being arrested for drunken driving,
Bombay is sentenced to community service by coaching the local "District
5" PeeWee hockey
team. Bombay has a history with the sport, although his memories are
far from pleasant: he blew a penalty shot, costing his team the title
and disappointing his hyper-competitive coach, Jack Reilly (Lane Smith).
In fact, the movie later shows Reilly with Bombay looking at his string
of championship banners and disgustingly saying that the runner-up
banner should be taken down.
When Bombay meets the team, he realizes the kids have no practice
facility, equipment or ability to go with it. The team's first game with
Bombay at the helm is against Bombay's old team: the Hawks, the team
from the snooty suburb of Edina.
Reilly is still head coach and remains bitter about Gordon's
shortcoming in that fateful game. District 5 gets pummeled and after
Bombay berates the team for not listening to him the players challenge
his authority. Meanwhile, Bombay discovers his old mentor and family
friend Hans (Joss Ackland)
who owns a nearby sporting goods store was in attendance. While
visiting him, Bombay recalls that he quit playing hockey after losing
his father four months before the championship game. Hans encourages him
to rekindle his childhood passion.
Bombay approaches his boss, Gerald Ducksworth (Josef Sommer)
to sponsor the team, which Ducksworth reluctantly agrees. The result is
a complete makeover for the team, both in look (as they can now buy
professional equipment) and in skill (as Bombay has more time to teach
the kids hockey fundamentals). Now playing as the "Ducks", they fight to
a tie in the next game and recruit three new players: figure-skating
siblings Tommy (Danny Tamberelli) and Tammy Duncan (Jane Plank) and slap shot specialist and enforcer Fulton Reed (Elden Henson). The potential of Ducks player Charlie Conway (Joshua Jackson) catches Bombay's eye and he takes him under his wing.
Bombay learns that star player for the Hawks, Adam Banks (Vincent Larusso),
actually resides in the Ducks' district boundaries and threatens Reilly
into transferring Banks to the Ducks. After hearing an out of context
quote about them, the Ducks players lose faith in Bombay and revert to
their old habits.
Ducksworth makes a deal with Reilly about the Hawks keeping Banks,
however Bombay refuses since it would be against fair-play, which
Ducksworth berated him about when he started his community service. Left
with either the choice of letting his team down or get fired from his
job, Bombay takes the latter.
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