JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Like the die-hard fans of the fictional Charlestown Chiefs in the movie “Slap Shot,” which was filmed here in 1976, supporters of the minor league Johnstown Chiefs have reason to be angry with the team’s owners.

One of those fans, Anthony Furfari, has been a season-ticket holder since 1989-90, the Chiefs’ second season in this down-on-its-luck city 60 miles east of Pittsburgh. He shapes his vacation time around hockey season, and even though he lost his job five years ago as a grocery store clerk, he scrounges up the money to hold on to his $14.50-per-game seats, attending as many games as possible.

“This place is special to me; I went to games here as a kid,” Furfari, 51, said Saturday night as he walked into Cambria County War Memorial Arena wearing the blue-and-yellow jersey of the Johnstown Jets, the team that inspired the movie but that folded in 1977, the year the film was released.

Next season, Furfari will have to rely on his memory to get his hockey fix. Saturday was the Johnstown Chiefs’ last game, a lackluster 5-3 loss to the Elmira Jackals before a sellout crowd of 4,017.