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From: mre@laidbak.UUCP (Mike Eisler)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: What's with all these hockey movies?
Message-ID: <713@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 13:41:59 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  1 13:41:59 1986
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In article <11600@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> citrin@ucbvax.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Wayne Citrin) writes:
>Not only is there "Youngblood," ... but 
>"Touch and Go," ...
>will come out sometime in February or March. ...
>Could the marketers have decided that hockey is
>the latest Yuppie phenomenon?  God, I hope not!  

I do.  If films like these are not an indication of growing popularity 
of the game in the U.S., then at least they might encourage its acceptance.
Then maybe we can watch the a few games a month on network tv, rather than
waiting for cable to arrive.  The ends justify the means.