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Originally Posted by cgy2london
Miracle.....meh. could of been alot worse with your typical america save the day story line. I think someone above said they used minor league players or something? false, they were guys from the UBC thunderbirds team and some of it was filmed at ubc campus. The thing i like the most about this film is it depicts the us style hockey stystem i.e. college is the ultimate goal unlike here where its jr and then the show. not a bad film, shows hockey players pretty close to what they are, not perfect by any means. Thers also a couple errors in the storyline...
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That was me who said that. I shouldnt have used the word pro, you're right, it wasn't pro players. My point though was that they cast guys who could actually play hockey, as opposed to casting guys like, say, Paul Newman, Adam Sandler, Emilio Estevez, etc for star power, even though they can barely skate.
Most of the guys in Miracle played either major junior or U.S. college hockey, including the main actors. I wasn't talking about just extras, I meant the main guys. Eric Peter-Kaiser(the guy I knew) played Mark Johnson, and he played for the Nanaimo Clippers in the BCHL. Patrick O'Brien Demsey played Mike Eruzione, and he played some college hockey. Nathan West played Rob McClanahan, and he was a goalie for the Plymouth Whalers. And yeah even the fact that they used UBC players as extras still makes my point that it's cool they actually used real hockey players, unlike most hockey movies out there. Which is why the hockey looks so good in that movie, as opposed to say, Slap Shot.
Anyways it doesnt matter, if you didnt like the movie then you didnt like the movie, I'm not gonna argue it. Just wanted to show that the fact it was actually college players as opposed to pro players doesn't make a diff in the point I was making