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  • It Takes a Choir Bad News Blues Hockey (Season 1, Episode 3)
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    TV Episode | 42 min | Documentary

It Takes a Choir

Bad News Blues Hockey (Season 1, Episode 3)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 42 min | Documentary
The Madison Blues of Madison, Wisconsin, are one of ten hockey teams in the state in their amateur men's hockey league. Despite the team having good and passionate players, they had a record of 1-19 last season, and because of their poor ...See moreThe Madison Blues of Madison, Wisconsin, are one of ten hockey teams in the state in their amateur men's hockey league. Despite the team having good and passionate players, they had a record of 1-19 last season, and because of their poor performance, they rarely have any fans in the stands for their games. Pete and Susie, the team owners and managers and the figurative parental figures, are losing about $700 per game, and may have to fold the team if things do not improve. Gareth believes the Blues forming a choir not only will bring them together as a cohesive unit to improve their hockey performance as a team - Susie believing that the current mentality being every man for himself - but also bring some much needed publicity to fill the seats for games. He has to do some major convincing for the players to agree. Gareth feels he needs to do some team building exercises beyond just getting them to sing together. There is also the want to include Pete and Susie, which, because of Susie means finding other women. Gareth tries to convince the Madison Capitols, an equivalent female hockey team, to join the choir as well. Beyond the overall goal of bringing the Blues together, he hopes some players will benefit personally from being in the choir, including: Casey, who had NHL aspirations, and knowing that will now not happen, needs something to fulfill the exhibitionist side of his personality; and Ryan, for who hockey was a salvation from a troubled and criminal past, who is one of the team captains and de facto leaders in the absence of a team coach, but who the other players do not respect in that pseudo-coach position as being just another one of the players. Written by Huggo See less
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Director
Michael McNamara
Cinematographer
Kenny Krauss
Editors
Michael Chaskes | Adam Daroff | Peter Gamba
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Status
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Updated Dec 29, 2014
Release date
Dec 29, 2014 (United States)

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