reimagined adaptation of the 1986 hockey cult classic<\/a> that starred Rob Lowe in the title role, Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves.<\/p>\n\u201cOh my gosh, I never skated that much before in a practice or anything,\u201d Wagner said. \u201cThat was crazy. But it was great, it felt good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wagner plays young Dean Youngblood, a swift-skating, high-scoring hockey prodigy who later joins the Hamilton Mustangs and discovers he must face off against toxic behavior on the ice and within himself while trying to make it to the NHL.<\/p>\n
The new \u201cYoungblood\u201d made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday. Its director, producer and actors celebrated afterward at a reception at the Hockey Hall of Fame. Wagner attended the reception, but he saw the movie for the first time at a private screening on Tuesday for local crew, actors and extras who worked on scenes that were shot in Hamilton and Barrie, Ontario.<\/p>\n
“It was amazing to see my name right beside Blair Underwood,” Wagner said. “There isn’t a single feeling that could explain how happy I was when I saw (the film).”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William Douglas has been writing The Color of Hockey blog since 2012. Douglas joined NHL.com in 2019 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-127416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}