Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice 2002

25 years after the events of the first film, the Charlestown Chiefs are still languishing in Pennsylvania. Sean Linden is a former NHL player whose name has been disgraced for betting on games, and he has replaced Reggie Dunlop as the main protagonist — initially a player-coach, just like Dunlop, Linden also serves as the team’s captain. The Chiefs struggle both on and off the ice, and violence remains their hallmark as Jack Hanson, Jeff Hanson, and Steve Hanson prove unable to be fully controlled.

Following another disappointing season, the team is sold to a family entertainment corporation called Better America, run by Richmond Claremont. The Chiefs are moved to Nebraska and renamed the “Super Chiefs,” and they are also given a new female coach. Sean and the rest of the players soon discover that Claremont intends to use the Super Chiefs as a team that purposefully loses in choreographed and scripted games against a Harlem Globetrotters-type squad called the Omaha IceBreakers, all in an effort to make the game more palatable for a family audience.

During their first rehearsal, a fight breaks out between the Super Chiefs and the IceBreakers, which results in the Hanson Brothers getting fired. After the incident, Claremont bribes Sean to change the team’s attitude toward losing on purpose, with the promise that he can leave on his own terms. Sean manages to convince everyone to back “fake games” for higher pay and exposure, and he plans to depart Nebraska after faking a shoulder injury. While at the airport, he watches a panel discussion on TV criticizing him and Claremont as an embarrassment to the game of hockey. Realizing his love for the sport, Sean returns to the team, along with the Hanson Brothers, to play a real game against the IceBreakers as the Chiefs.

Back to their old, rough-and-tumble roots, the Chiefs overpower the IceBreakers with brutal, last-minute intensity, culminated by a winning goal from Sean. A furious Claremont threatens to sue, but he soon learns the team was sold out from under him to the Hanson Brothers, who lately won the lottery. The movie closes with the Hanson Brothers announcing that the team is returning to Charlestown and returning to their roots of playing “old-time hockey.”