For boring budgetary reasons the city is going to close down the skating oval in the downtown core after the holidays.
Coincidentally the mayor's widowed son-in-law, a retired pro hockey player played by soap opera hunk and former Mr. Eye-Candy, Ryan Cooper, has just developed a huge new sports complex at the edge of town. It's good for the suburbs but not so much for kids who live in the city core & take their lessons as well as leisure at the oval.
You can see where this is going, right?
Enter the spunky skating instructor and skate shack worker, Courtney, (Abigail Klein) who quickly makes friends with Mr. Hockey's daughter and convinces her to take up skating classes at the oval. With help from the mayor's secretary, Courtney also starts a PR campaign to win over the mayor & save the oval even though she's falling for Mr. Hockey aka 'the competition'.
The acting's not great, the script is only okay, and the settings - unless you live close enough to recognize downtown Worchester - are Anytown, Northeast USA. It's definitely lacking the visual appeal & polish of our other recent skating movie (Niall Matter. Mmm...). But the movie has some cute scenes of skating kids. Relationships feel believable. And you're left wondering if parts of it were in fact based on a real story.
Coincidentally the mayor's widowed son-in-law, a retired pro hockey player played by soap opera hunk and former Mr. Eye-Candy, Ryan Cooper, has just developed a huge new sports complex at the edge of town. It's good for the suburbs but not so much for kids who live in the city core & take their lessons as well as leisure at the oval.
You can see where this is going, right?
Enter the spunky skating instructor and skate shack worker, Courtney, (Abigail Klein) who quickly makes friends with Mr. Hockey's daughter and convinces her to take up skating classes at the oval. With help from the mayor's secretary, Courtney also starts a PR campaign to win over the mayor & save the oval even though she's falling for Mr. Hockey aka 'the competition'.
The acting's not great, the script is only okay, and the settings - unless you live close enough to recognize downtown Worchester - are Anytown, Northeast USA. It's definitely lacking the visual appeal & polish of our other recent skating movie (Niall Matter. Mmm...). But the movie has some cute scenes of skating kids. Relationships feel believable. And you're left wondering if parts of it were in fact based on a real story.