Like any
Die Hard-style action flick,
Sudden Death is packed with implausibilities.
This (typo-ridden) Centerstage Chicago review finds plenty to snort at in the far-fetched Jean-Claude Van Damme film, but expresses special disbelief that Jeff Shantz would score a playoff goal for the Blackhawks. The time of the goal is not recorded in the review, nor is the score of the game when the goal was tallied.
This canoe.ca review contains some trivia I didn't know: The NHL lockout took place while
Sudden Death was shooting, so ECHL players were used in place of NHLers. This review claims, however, that "the real [Luc] Robitaille came on the ice for the dramatic game-winning goal for the cameras."
I haven't seen it in years, but I remember the movie differently. It seems to me that the game -- game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals, no less -- ends without a winner when a helicopter crashes to the ice through the Civic Arena's retractable roof. I remember thinking that it was tactful of the filmmakers to avoid making a real hockey franchise pretend to lose a fictional championship game.
We don't get to see a whole lot of the game (except during the ridiculous sequence where Van Damme disguises himself in a borrowed goalie's uniform for some reason, and no one on the bench recognizes him, and the coach puts him in, and he makes a game-preserving save). We do get regular looks at the scoreboard, though, as the game clock figures into the plot. As I recall, something bad is expected when time runs out, so when the game goes into overtime, so does Van Damme's struggle to defeat the terrorist bad guys.
If anyone can provide me with the rudimentary box score for this make-believe game, I'd appreciate it. Ideally, I'm hoping to see the names of all scorers and the times of their goals.
No reason; I'm just curious.