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Macbain & Slaters to Create Film About 1990 Colgate Hockey Season

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

The three sons of Colgate's late hockey coach Terry Slater and an HCS grad now studying film at SUNY Oswego are collaborating on a film about Colgate's 1990 men's hockey season, the year the Raiders went to the national championship.

Grant, Todd and Wade Slater, who founded Slater Brothers Entertainment, grew up watching their father work his magic in Starr Rink. The team posted 251 wins during Slater's 15-year tenure as head hockey coach. The Raiders won 31 games in the 1990 season.

Colgate lost to Wisconsin in the finals of the NCAA championship in Detroit.

"This is a tale of David versus Goliath, and how walk-on players, transfers, a group of unknown freshmen and their fiery coach reached incredible success one magical season," said Grant Slater, who played for his father while at Colgate.

Filming has already started on the project titled, The General. Terry Slater died on his 54th birthday. He joined the Colgate coaching staff in 1977.

Macbain's first film, which stemmed from a project while he was a student at Onondaga Community College, was about the success of the HCS soccer program. It was shown at the film festival the Slaters hold each August in Hamilton.

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