Goon

Driven with a burning desire to make something of himself, Doug Smith calls upon his only marketable skills - those honed as an amateur boxer - and despite not learning to skate until the age of 19, punches his way into the world of professional hockey. Join Doug ""The Thug"" Smith during his unlikely journey as a minor-league hockey enforcer, the most unique and peculiar job in all of sport.

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Directionless yet driven by a fervent desire to make something of himself, Doug "The Thug" Smith took his only marketable job skill--amateur boxing--and followed an unlikely career path to become a hockey enforcer, a.k.a. "goon." Entrusted with aggressively protecting his teammates from tough guys on the opposing team, he punched, elbowed and cross-checked his way up the ranks of minor league hockey to win a championship ring and the respect of his community. His entertaining underdog story is the subject of the cult-classic motion picture Goon (2011) and its sequel Goon: Last of the Enforcers (2017).