Hockey Movies

Kurt Russell in my favorite hockey movie 2004's Miracle.
Kurt Russell in my favorite hockey movie
2004’s Miracle.

Want to know the best Hockey Movies?  How about the worst Hockey Movies?  Curious about Hockey Movies did at the box office or which Hockey Movies picked up the most Oscar® nominations and Oscar® wins? Need to know which Hockey Movies movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

This page represents part 3 in a series of pages that are trying to identify the Top 400 Sports Movies. This page will look at the top 17 Hockey movies.  Movies are ranked by using a combination of box office results, reviews from audiences and critics and award recognition. 

Paul Newman in 1977's Slap Shot
Paul Newman in 1977’s Slap Shot

Hockey Movies Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Hockey Movies by the star of the Hockey movie
  • Sort Hockey Movies by actual domestic box office grosses
  • Sort Hockey Movies by adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
  • Sort by how Hockey Movies were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Hockey Movie received.
  • Sort Hockey Movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Hockey Movies Table

  1. One Hockey Movie crossed the magical $100 million mark.  That is a percentage of 5.88% of his movies listed.  Slap Shot (1977) is the biggest box office hit when looking at adjusted domestic box office.
  2. An average Hockey Movie grosses $43.80 million in adjusted box office gross.
  3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  6 Hockey Movies are rated as good movies…or 35.29% of his movies.  Highest rated Hockey movie is The Rocket (2007).  Lowest rated Hockey movie is The Love Guru (2008).
  4. Zero Hockey Movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 0.00% of the listed movies.
  5. Zero Hockey Movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 0.00% of his movies.
  6. An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score Score is 39.86.  14 of Hockey Movies’s movies scored higher that average….or 23.72% of his movies.  Slap Shot (1977) got the highest UMR Score….Touch and Go (1986) got the lowest UMR Score.

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16 thoughts on “Hockey Movies

    1. Well I am even more impressed that you read the Well I am even more impressed that you read the page…thanks for commenting, Kelly

  1. Slap shot is by far my favorite movie of the bunch…What category are you going to put Rollerball in,lol.

    I always enjoy the infographs Cogerson.;)

    1. Hey mentalist acer…..Slap Shot is a classic….Newman and the director George Roy Hill made three movies together….maybe you have heard of those three…..Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, The Sting and Slap Shot….not a bad trifecta of movies. As for Rollerball….whenever I get to the final hub and I am picking up hard to categorize movies….both Rollerballs will make that page….as well as Baseketball…..and the one curling movie Men with Brooms…as always thanks for reading and commenting.

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