Slap Shot - Blu-RayAuthor: Paul Newman Format: Blu ray Release Date: 15 10 2013 Details: Amazon. ca Paul Newman and his Butch Cassidy director, George Roy Hill, made a very original comedy in this 1977 story of an over the hill player coach (Newman) for a lousy hockey team who gets results when he teaches his players to get dirty. One of the most hilariously profane movies ever to come out of Hollywood, this is the kind of film that makes its own rules as it goes along.