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The sports world takes care of the loss of the former NHL player Guido Tenesi. He was 71.
Tenesi rose to star status after he portrayed Billy Charlebois in the sports comedy movie “Slap Shot” in 1977. The American Hockey League -franchise, Hershey Bears, offered compassion on Thursday.
“We are saddened to learn about Guido Tenesi, a member of our program list during the Calder Cup championship in 1974, and were known for many more for his role as Billy Charlebois in the classic hockey movie” Slapshot, “the bears wrote in a social media post.” Our hearts are with his family, friends and teammates. “
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Guido Tenesi, an actor from “Slapshot” participates in Sports Card Expo in the International Center on November 12, 2022 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
A cause of death was not immediately released.
Pittsburgh Penguins drafted Tenesi in the fifth round of the NHL amateur draft in 1973. He also spent time competing in several professional hockey leagues and had a two-year stint with Penguin’s Minor-League associated in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
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Tenesi won the North American Hockey League title when he played for the Johnstown Jets in the 1974-75 season. Tenesi remembered his time with the team and how it helped him land the role in the classic sports movie.
A graphic overview of the web on the hockey course photographed before the game at Nassau Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum on March 29. 2012 in Uniondale, New York. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
“I played on the same team as down Dowd, Dave Hanson and Carlsons. Down would go around with a tape recorder and note everything that happened on one of our road trips,” Tenesi said in 2016 during an interview with Utica Observer-Dispatch. “If someone stumbled on the ice, or if a player broke their stick and threw it over the glass, recorded it down.”
The action of “slack shot” followed the story of a failed minor league hockey team named Charlestown Chiefs. Actor and director Paul Newman portrayed coach reggie Dunlop in the film.
A general view of a stick and pucker during the morning skate before the game between Pittsburgh Penguins and Chicago Blackhawks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
Steve Carlson, who also starred in the film, mourned his late co-star Tenesi as a “Good guy gone too early.”
“Rip Guido Tenesi” Pretty Boy “Good guy has gone too soon,” Carlson wrote on X Thursday. “On behalf of myself and Vicki we send our inner compassion.
In another post on Friday, Carlson Tenesi remembered as “Forever A Chief.”
“Rest light, # 5 – you’re forever a boss,” he wrote.
