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Philip Anthony "Phil" Esposito, OC (born February 20, 1942) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey centre. A member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, he played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins and New York Rangers. He is considered one of the best to have ever played in the NHL, and is the older brother of fellow Hall-of-Famer Tony Esposito, a goaltender.
After retiring as a player, Esposito served as head coach and general manager of the New York Rangers before co-founding the Tampa Bay Lightning. He was the principal studio analyst for the NHL on Fox 1995–1998. He now serves as Tampa Bay's radio color commentator.
Esposito signed with the Chicago Black Hawks as a teenager and was assigned to the Sarnia Legionnaires Jr. 'B' hockey team for the 1960–61 season. In just 32 games with the Legionnaires, he scored 47 goals and 61 assists, for 108 points. It was a scoring pace of 3.3 points per game. In a playoff game, he scored 12 points in one game as the Legionnaires advanced to the Western Ontario final before being eliminated. After a sparkling junior season with the St. Catharines Teepees of the Ontario Hockey Association in 1962, Esposito spent two seasons with Chicago's minor league affiliate, the St. Louis Braves, scoring 90 points in his first season and 80 points in only 46 games in his second.
Actors: Robert Bockstael (actor), Mike Dopud (actor), Eugene Lipinski (actor), Judah Katz (actor), Gary Levert (actor), Gabriel Hogan (actor), Joel M. Thompson (miscellaneous crew), Mark A. Owen (actor), Hugh Thompson (actor), Barrie Dunn (writer), Barrie Dunn (producer), Randy Thomas (actor), Sebastian MacLean (actor), Sebastien Roberts (actor), Booth Savage (actor),
Plot: In 1972, a historical ice hockey game tournament is arranged where the cream of Canada's professional stars of the National Hockey League would play against the best of the Soviet Union's. Although Canada and the USSR have faced off repeatedly on the amateur level before, most of Canada is smugly convinced that the Soviets will be no match for the pros. However, that assumption is forcefully shot down when Team Canada is soundly trounced in the first game by the skilled Soviet Union team. What follows is a bitter struggle as Team Canada fights to recover in a series that would change Canadian hockey's self-image and history forever.
Keywords: 1970s, canada, cold-war, country-name-in-title, hockey, ice-hockey, ice-skating, number-in-title, racket, russiaActors: David Fredericks (actor), Joe Keithley (actor), Ron Yoshida (editor), Garry Little (actor), Gordon Tipple (actor), Brad Rines (editor), Vincent Walker (actor), Bill Evans (actor), David Bouck (producer), George Majoros (actor), Erik Whittaker (director), Erik Whittaker (writer), Scott Tate (writer), Melanie McCraig (producer), Scott Tate (actor),
Plot: An investigation by a hard-nosed RCMP cop into an exploded body at the Airport in 1972 during game four of the Russia/Canada hockey series and a podiatry convention.
Keywords: canada, hockey, independent-film, police-officer, rcmp