Former hockey player, beloved 'Slap Shot' movie star Guido Tenesi dead at 71

The sports satellite is mourning the nonaccomplishment of erstwhile NHL player Guido Tenesi. He was 71.

Tenesi roseate to stardom aft helium portrayed Billy Charlebois successful the sports drama movie "Slap Shot" successful 1977. American Hockey League franchise, the Hershey Bears, offered condolences connected Thursday.

"We’re saddened to larn of the passing of Guido Tenesi, a subordinate of our roster during the 1974 Calder Cup championship, and was known to galore much for his relation arsenic Billy Charlebois successful the classical hockey movie "Slapshot," the Bears wrote successful a societal media post. "Our hearts are with his family, friends, and teammates."

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Guido Tenesi, an histrion from "Slapshot" attends the Sports Card Expo astatine the International Centre connected Nov. 12, 2022 successful Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

A origin of decease was not instantly released.

The Pittsburgh Penguins drafted Tenesi successful the 5th circular of the 1973 NHL amateur draft. He besides spent clip competing successful aggregate nonrecreational hockey leagues and had a two-year stint with the Penguins minor-league affiliate successful Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins are the Penguins' existent affiliate, portion the Bears service arsenic the superior improvement squad for the Washington Capitals.

Tenesi won the North American Hockey League rubric erstwhile helium played for the Johnstown Jets during the 1974-75 season. Tenesi recalled his clip with the squad and however it helped him onshore the relation successful the classical sports movie.

A graphic presumption of the nett connected the hockey rink photographed anterior to the crippled astatine the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum connected Mar. 29, 2012 successful Uniondale, New York. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

"I played connected the aforesaid squad arsenic Ned Dowd, Dave Hanson, and the Carlsons. Ned would locomotion astir with a portion recorder, and taking notes connected everything that happened connected 1 of our roadworthy trips," Tenesi said successful 2016 during an interrogation with the Utica Observer-Dispatch. "If idiosyncratic tripped connected the ice, oregon if a subordinate broke their instrumentality and threw it implicit the glass, Ned recorded it."

The crippled of "Slap Shot" followed the communicative of a failing insignificant league hockey squad named the Charlestown Chiefs. Actor and manager Paul Newman portrayed manager Reggie Dunlop successful the film.

A wide presumption of a instrumentality and pucks during the greeting skate anterior to the crippled betwixt the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Chicago Blackhawks successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

Steve Carlson, who besides starred successful the movie, mourned his precocious co-star Tenesi arsenic a "good feline gone excessively soon." 

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"RIP Guido Tenesi "Pretty boy" Good feline gone excessively soon," Carlson wrote connected X connected Thursday. "On behalf of myself and Vicki We nonstop our heartfelt condolences. He ever had HONOR and Class. Prayers for comfortableness to the full household and my chap teammates and co actors who acquisition yet different nonaccomplishment of the teammate."

In different station connected Friday, Carlson remembered Tenesi arsenic "forever a Chief."

"Rest easy, #5 — you’re everlastingly a Chief," helium wrote.

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