According to Wikipedia, this is the first hockey movie ever made. Not a bad start for a movie made almost 20 years before the first televised NHL game.
This short film is simple, charming and funny at time. There's definitely some original ideas (I don't think I've ever seen a story about a hockey player going blind), but the love story isn't much different from a ton of other 1930s movies.
The hockey scenes are what made this film truly enjoyable. For a 1936 movie, the on-ice cinematography is extremely surprising. It's fast, dynamic, agressive, and full of action shots. Some of them are exaggerated (especially the wall jumps that you will absolutely never see in a real hockey game), but still entertaining in the same way that the boxing scenes in Rocky are fun to watch. The 1930s arena is also a fun and rare thing to see if you like hockey history.
If you are a hockey fan, I recommend it.
