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Who Did Paul Newman's Skating in "Slap Shot"?
Who Did Paul Newman's Skating in "Slap Shot"?
Athens, GA (Jan 11, 2009) - A friend's sister from days gone by dug out a couple of pictures recently that brought back a flood of hockey memories. The league was the North American Hockey League . The team was the Broome Dusters . The movie, which many of us love to this day, was Slap Shot . We ...
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Fang's Bites — ... Christopher Byrne of the Eye on Sports Media blog goes over who skated for the late Paul Newman in the greatest hockey movie ever, "Slap Shot". ...

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