Al Trautwig


I liked the verisimilitude of using a real life New York sportscaster on the hockey footage, but boy did this movie give him an inexplicable workload! Not only does Trautwig host an entire hour long pregame show full of breathless anticipation for a regular season Rangers-Devils contest, he goes on to serve as that game's sole announcer. (Were the regular play-by-play guy and color commentator off on Christmas break?) Not as ridiculous as Neeson's endless supply of bullets, but one amusing flaw in a film teeming with them.

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I know the devils had Jagr in the movie, but Sam Rosen, when contracted by Fox for football, occasionally miss a Ranger broadcast. I know it's a stretch but maybe since it was before Christmas it could have been a weekend game?

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