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Ice Guardians: Directed by Brett Harvey. With Jay Baruchel, Brett Hull, Brett Gallant, Bobby Hull. On-ice enforcers struggle to rise through the professional ranks of the world's most prestigious hockey league, only to be confronted with a new found fight for the existence of the role itself.
- (1.8K)
- Documentary, Sport
- Brett Harvey
- 2016-10-28
Ice Guardians is a 2016 feature documentary film directed and written by Brett Harvey about ice hockey enforcers. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] The film includes interviews with former National Hockey League players including Hall of Famers Chris Chelios, Jarome Iginla, Bobby Hull and Brett Hull.
A documentary film about the enforcers in the National Hockey League, who face violence, controversy and scrutiny in their role. Watch the trailer and find out the theatrical release schedule and more information about the film.
- 2 min
- 414.4K
- Upstream Flix
- Giving The Goons Their Voice
- Filling in The Gaps
- It’S Still A Game
- Conclusion
While enforcer is the kind name for these players, goon is another commonly used and more descriptive term for how these men are thought of. We most often see them on the ice with fists raised or blood pouring, and that lends itself to a barbaric image. Ice Guardians flips the script by allowing the enforcers to articulate their own defense and in ...
Besides providing rebuttals to the player’s arguments, the non-player talking heads are used to bring up more academic ideas about the role and to expand upon the external forces moving against the enforcers. Like almost all contact sports, ice hockey has been shaken by the concussion research that’s come out in recent years. Public demands to make...
This review is in danger of making Ice Guardians sound like an academically stiff take on a crowd-pleasing sport, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. The audience for this documentary will largely be sports fans, and it proves adept at keeping that audience entertained. Like the sport it takes on, Ice Guardians moves at a nice clip, using ...
Ice Guardians was made as a response to the enforcer’s decreasing role in ice hockey. Public opinion and the style of the game has moved against then, but there’s still reasons to grieve for their absence. Ice Guardians can get people back on the enforcer’s side, but even if it’s too late to save them, it still encapsulates why we should respect th...
Exploring one of the most controversial and provocative positions in the history of sport, Ice Guardians journeys into the lives of those who perform what is undoubtedly the toughest job within the National Hockey League today: the enforcer.
Exploring one of the most controversial positions in the history of sport, Ice Guardians journeys into the toughest job of the NHL: the Enforcer. With unprecedented access to past and present players the humanity and struggles of the role is revealed.
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