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* [[Beware the Nice Ones|Beware the Nice]] [[Beware the Silly Ones|and Silly Ones]]: The Hanson Brothers have child like personalities, are fans of [[Speed Racer]] and treat their coach and team with respect. Much of it even convinces Dunlop that their team is doomed to fail and even bench them. However when out of options, Dunlop tells them "Show us what you got." They perform the Catholic Cross and go out demonstrating their rough enforcer skills, both impressing and terrifying the team. This trope actually pays off when Dunlop suggests they retool their team based on the brothers.
* [[Big Game]]: For the league championship. Subverted by the very unusual ending to the Big Game.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: The F word itself is mentioned at least 60 times throughout the movie, among other swears. Hey, it's the language of the locker room.
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* [[Man Child]]: The Hanson Brothers (Reggie to the General Manager: "You cheap bastard, those guys are retards!")
* [[Mooning]]: The entire team plus their followers do this out the windows of their vehicles when they get to one town that objects to their presence, and manage to stun the crowd to silence.
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* [[Noodle Incident]]: One of the notorious players returning to hockey for the final "has been living in semi-seclusion in Moosejaw, Saskachewan ever since the famed ''Denny Pratt Tragedy''."
* [[Opposing Sports Team]]: Inverted in that the protagonists are a down-and-out hockey team who suddenly hit the big time when they recruit three brothers who teach them the value of violent tactics deliberately designed to hurt the other team. This ends with them facing a team that's a conglomeration of all the most violent players their opponents can find, with no one making any attempt to play the game as they just try to kick each others' asses instead.
* [[Outdated Outfit]]: The outfits in this film are very, ''very'' 1970s, to an embarrassing extent.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Though the Hanson Brothers are brutal, they at least know when to shut up and when others should too. One referee thought that the singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" was the perfect opportunity to berate them for the brawl that had happened during the warmups.
{{quote|'''Referee:'''I got my eye on the three of you. You pull one thing, you're out of this game. I run a clean game here. I have any trouble here, I'll suspend ya.
'''Steve Hanson:''' [[Threat Backfire|I'm listening to the FUCKING SONG!!!!]]}}
* [[The Seventies]]
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Lily Braden.
* [[Trickster Archetype]]: Reggie Dunlop.
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