History YMMV / SlapShot

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Since there hasn’t been one for about 35 years, many younger viewers are likely unaware that Player-Coaches used to be quite common, especially for a low level minor league team like the Chiefs.

* HarsherInHindsight: Upon hearing the news that the team will be folding one of the players laments having to go to work at the auto plant. While not glamorous such manufacturing jobs provided steady income with decent pay and benefits for generations of American and Canadian workers. They're all but gone now. In fact a key plot point is that the town's steel mill is closing and the city's economy will collapse as well, so no money for hockey games.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Since there hasn’t been one for about 35 years many younger viewers are likely unaware that Player-Coaches used to be quite common, especially for a low level minor league team like the Chiefs.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While it has become more obscure as time goes on in the US, it's an iconic film in Quebec. This is because the two Quebec-born actors in the film translated the film themselves, and they chose to do a contextual translation rather than a normal one. They also used Quebecois French rather than "standard" French for the translation. As a result, it's one of the very few films that bilingual Quebecers prefer to watch dubbed rather than subtitled. The movie is STILL to this day widely quoted among Quebecers and other French speakers in Canada, and there's even three season ticket holders for the Montreal Canadiens who show up to every game dressed as the Hanson Brothers.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Fans found one to this in ''Film/{{Goon}}'', with the premise of a violent hockey player whose sole purpose is to fight and brawl for his team.

* HilariousInHindsight: Dunlop has the team believing that they will be moving to St. Petersburg, Florida, after the season. In 1992, the St. Petersburg area actually got an NHL team, the Tampa Bay Lightning. Which has since won [[UsefulNotes/TheStanleyCup]] in 2004, 2020 and 2021.

* HilariousInHindsight: Dunlop has the team believing that they will be moving to St. Petersburg, Florida, after the season. In 1992, the St. Petersburg area actually got an NHL team, the Tampa Bay Lightning.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While it has become more obscure as time goes on in the US, it's an iconic film in Quebec. This is because the two French-Canadian actors in the film translated the film themselves, and they chose to do a contextual translation rather than a normal one. They also used Quebecois French rather than "standard" French for the translation. As a result, it's one of the very few films that bilingual French-Canadians prefer to watch dubbed rather than subtitled. The movie is STILL to this day widely quoted among French-Canadians, and there's even three season ticket holders for the Montreal Canadiens who show up to every game dressed as the Hanson Brothers.

* {{Sequelitis}}: The film had two later unsuccessful sequels.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While it has become more obscure as time goes on in the US, it's an iconic film in Quebec. This is because the two French-Canadian actors in the film translated the film themselves, and they chose to do a contextual translation rather than a normal one. They also used Quebecois French rather than "standard" French for the translation. As a result, it's one of the very few films that bilingual French-Canadians prefer to watch dubbed rather than subtitled. The movie is STILL to this day widely quoted among French-Canadians, and there's even three season ticket holders for the Montreal Canadians who show up to every game dressed as the Hanson Brothers.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While it has become more obscure as time goes on in the US, it's an iconic film in Quebec. This is because the two French-Canadian actors in the film translated the film themselves, and they chose to do a contextual translation rather than a normal one. They also used Quebecois French rather than "standard" French for the translation. As a result, it's one of the very few films that bilingual French-Canadians prefer to watch dubbed rather than subtitled. The movie is STILL to this day widely quoted among French-Canadians, and there's even three season ticket holders for the Montreal Canadiens who show up to every game dressed as the Hanson Brothers.
** The movie is ''incredibly'' popular among real-life hockey players, who grew up watching it and worshiping it.

* Harsher in Hindsight: Upon hearing the news that the team will be folding one of the players laments having to go to work at the auto plant. While not glamorous such manufacturing jobs provided steady income with decent pay and benefits for generations of American and Canadian workers. They're all but gone now. In fact a key plot point is that the town's steel mill is closing and the city's economy will collapse as well, so no money for hockey games.

* GeniusBonus: Eddie Shore is cited as an example of "good, clean old time hockey" when he was actually very violent and nasty. In fact, he's name is often mentioned when people want to prove how violent old time hockey really was.

* GeniusBonus: Eddie Shore is cited as an example of "good, clean clean old time hockey" when he was actually very violent and nasty. In fact, he's name is often mentioned when people want to prove how violent old time hockey really was.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While it has become more obscure as time goes on in the US, it's an iconic film in Quebec. This is because the two French-Canadian actors in the film translated the film themselves, and they chose to do a contextual translation rather than a normal one. They also used Quebecois French rather than "standard" French for the translation. As a result, it's one of the very few films that bilingual French-Canadians prefer to watch dubbed rather than subtitled. The movie is STILL to this day widely quoted among French-Canadians, and there's even three season ticket holders for the Montreal Canadiens who show up to every game dressed as the Hanson Brothers.