Ice Guardians & Chill

I rented Ice Guardians on Amazon video tonight. Here's my synopsis. 

The underlying tone of this entire documentary; which was really well made, was that this is what these guys had to do to play in the NHL. They were not NHL players without the ability to fight. And at the end of the film we learn, that they would do it all again. 

The NHL has changed today. The death of the enforcer role really happened in 2005 when hockey became more wide-open and all four lines had to be able to score and skate. There was no roster spot really allotted for there to be an enforcer anymore. And now that leaves guys like Sidney Crosby for instance wide open to take shots and get concussions and not to have the room to skate and play freely like Wayne Gretzky and other greats did like Steve Yzerman had with their sidecar enforcer line mates. 

This was a very interesting documentary that covers all aspects of the role of enforcers, every single aspect. It was well worth the rent.

They had an interview with the recently deceased Dave Semenko.


Jay Baruchel is featured a lot in the documentary. Had no idea he loved the Habs: