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And he NAILS IT. Do you wanna go, pretty boy?

Just a few of the choice snippets:

Same goes for "Youngblood," which ranks No. 57 on the list for the unintentional comedy more than anything else. I mean, have you SEEN Rob Lowe skate? It's like the producers asked Lowe's agent before filming, "We're ready to make the deal, but just to make sure, you're sure Rob can skate, right?," and Lowe's agent told them, "Oh, yeah, he's like lightning out there!," then hung up and quickly speed-dialed the nearest skating coach. More importantly, have you SEEN Rob Lowe fight? He couldn't even beat up Andrew McCarthy in "Class," and we were supposed to believe he could knock out the toughest enforcer in the Canadian Hockey League? Everything considered, Lowe was slightly more believable than Michael J. Fox in "Teen Wolf," not quite as believable as Tim Robbins in "Bull Durham," and right on par with the kid from "Rookie of the Year" throwing 143 miles-an-hour.

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At the tryout, a few things immediately stand out:

2a. The star forward on the team? A mullet-wearing Patrick Swayze.

2b. The star goaltender on the team? A French-Canadian speaking Keanu Reeves.

2c. The star defenseman on the team? A chain-smoking, belligerent Frank Stallone.

(Note: I made up only one of those last three paragraphs).

3. When Coach Lauter keeps Youngblood over the intimidating Karl Racki – despite the fact that Racki decked Youngblood twice during the scrimmage – it's pretty safe to say that we haven't heard the last of Racki. But the fact that Youngblood fights like Robin Ventura did give the coach some pause, prompting the following exchange at my house last weekend:

– Sports Gal: "Wait, would the team really care how good of a fighter he is?"

– Me: "You're nitpicking with a movie where Keanu Reeves plays a French-Canadian goalie?"

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On the flip side, you can't have a better final game than Youngblood did: Two goals in the final 10 seconds of a championship game (giving you a hat trick), plus, you cold-cock the guy who maimed your friend, and you go home with the coach's daughter. The end. Think about it ... what sports movie character topped that performance in a single night? Roy Hobbs and Rocky Balboa had to go to the hospital; Paul Crewe had to go back to jail; Danny Noonan was stuck with Maggie; Jimmy Chitwood was stuck in 1950; Henry Steele still had to transfer; Kelly Leak had to drive the Bears all the way back from Houston to California; I mean, you can keep going down the list, and I guarantee that nobody was riding higher than Dean Youngblood that night.

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Yep, he's a big part of the reason whenever I notice A-Channel or Global is playing Youngblood uncut on a Saturday afternoon because they have nothing else lined up I *always* watch it. Best bad hockey movie EVER, Simmons is exactly right when he says that for unintentional comedy alone it's worth watching. Actually, for unintentional comedy only is it worth watching, but still a classic I need to own on DVD. I remember being like 14 and watching it for the first time and my friends and I were aghast because we were all clearly better than these guys and they were somehow in a movie. We just assumed we'd be in a hockey movie in a few years too.