In the Crease

In the Crease the youth hockey experience is a featurelength documentary film that follows the reallife story of a teenage hockey teams quest to win a national championship and also stars over a dozen NHL players sharing their own hockey triumphs. The film was produced and directed by Matthew Gannon and Michael Sarner, distributed by Stickmen Pictures LLC, aired on Versus on January 20, 2008 and was released on DVD on October 26, 2006.

When the Wave reach the USA Hockey national championship in Bensenville, Illinois, they play the Dallas Alliance, TPH Thunder and Nashua Panthers. They win each of these qualifying round games, and then come up against the formidable Honeybaked team from Michigan in the playoffs. In an action packed game that goes scoreless for two periods, the Wave are denied a goal when one of their players is called in the crease. Honeybaked then take alead with just minutes left in the game. The Wave get a power play opportunity but fail to score, and then Honeybaked seals the victory with an empty netter when the Wave pull their goalie. The loss is devastating for the Wave, but some of the players vow to return to nationals the next year.Sure enough, twelve months later, Coach Lewis and the Wave do make it back to nationals in Rochester, NY. They go on to defeat the New Jersey Jr. Devils in overtime in the championship game. ........

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