The four played together with the minor-league Johnstown Jets in 1974 and 1975, inspiring the Hanson brothers in the movie "Slap Shot," which was written by Nancy Dowd, the sister of yet another ...

"Slap Shot," which ... it came time to cast the movie, Jack was off playing in the World Hockey Association, so Hanson got the part playing Jack. And all three movie "brothers" took the name ...

Christian Hanson’s dad is the famous David Hanson—one of the “Hanson Brothers” in the cult hockey movie Slap Shot, where he played the brother Jack. The Hanson family had made a point of ...

With the original Hanson Brothers still on the same minor league ice hockey team, the Chiefs are sold to a new owner who gives them a female coach and puts them in a league in which they are to be ...