Hanson Brothers

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The Hanson Brothers are the ice hockey playing siblings from the 1977 movie "Slap Shot", whose characters are actually based upon themselves.

The Hanson Brothers are Jeff Carlson (born July 20, 1953 in Virginia, Minnesota), Steve Carlson (born August 26, 1955 in Virginia, Minnesota), and Dave Hanson (born April 12, 1954 in Cumberland, Wisconsin). In the movie, they speak with a typical North Central American Accent, owing to their hometowns, in areas where hockey is prevalent. The United States Hockey Hall of Fame is located in Eveleth, Minnesota, only a few miles from Virginia, home of the Carlsons. The Iron League, from which the Hansons are supposedly bought, may well be a reference to the Iron Range, a hockey hotbed in Northern Minnesota.

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The movie, which stars Paul Newman, was written by Nancy Dowd, and based upon the antics of the North American Hockey League club in Pennsylvania called the Johnstown Jets, for which her brother Ned played.