Michael Dowse directed the original and Seann William Scott played Doug Glatt, a mediocre hockey player who becomes the fighter on the Halifax Highlander hockey team. Scott returned for the sequel, as did rival Ross Rhea, played by Liev Schreiber.

“We’ve had some great cameo appearances people will be happy to see,” Gorenstein said. “We’ve got some current NHL Stanley Cup winning players and former NHL players. People just wanted to be a part of this movie.”

Both Scott and Schreiber were given local cottages for accommodation, but Gorenstein said with long shooting days, there was little time for any of the cast to meander through Barrie.

Aside from filming at the BMC, some scenes were shot in Hamilton and Toronto.

When asked why the local rink was the backdrop for the hockey games, Gorenstein said the Highlanders play in an arena the same size.

“We chose the (BMC) after scouring almost every arena in Southern Ontario within a two-hour drive of Toronto,” Gorenstein said. “This is the one the director felt fit the story.”

He added the Barrie Colts owners and the City of Barrie made a fantastic deal for the facility over the past five weeks, including dressing rooms, training room, lunch rooms and washrooms.

“They made it easy for us to be here.”

He added the BMC was easy to transform for the movie, with different team logos embedded onto the ice, rink boards changed around and different banners lifted to the rafters.

“The ease of being able to do that made it the perfect place. A lot of arenas didn’t have access to wall space or removing rink boards. Barrie allowed all of that,” he said.

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