Caps New Coach Was Slapshot Extra
November 30th, 2007 by murph
Did you know? The Capitals new coach Bruce Boudreau was an extra in the movie Slapshot. That’s awesome. I hope he makes the team bus look mean.
His odyssey included one season playing for the Johnstown Jets of the North American Hockey League, the team that was the model for the Charlestown Chiefs led by Paul Newman’s player-coach in the 1977 film “Slap Shot.”
Boudreau didn’t have a speaking part but managed to make it into the final version.
“I was just a hot dog enough to hang out where the cameras hung out,” he said. “Talk about your 15 minutes of fame being a lot longer than that.”
