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Mystery, Alaska is a 1999 American sports comedy-drama film, directed by Jay Roach, about an amateur ice hockey team from the fictional small town of Mystery that plays an exhibition game against the National Hockey League (NHL)'s New York Rangers. It stars Russell Crowe, Hank Azaria and Burt Reynolds, with Mary McCormack, Lolita Davidovich, Ron Eldard, Colm Meaney, Maury Chaykin, Scott Grimes and Kevin Durand in supporting roles. It was shot in Canmore, Alberta, mostly in what is today known as Quarry Lake Park.
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In Mystery, Alaska, "the Saturday Game", a weekly hockey game, is played on an open pond. The entire town turns out every week to watch. The latest edition of Sports Illustrated features an article which says that in the ability to skate, the Mystery team rivals any team in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Mayor Scott Pitcher tells one of the players, Sheriff John Biebe, that he is being dropped from the Game, in favor of teenager Stevie Weeks. Meanwhile, Connor Banks, the team's best player, gets into an argument with a representative checking out the town for Price World (a business chain embodying a threat to local business). Connor fires a shot to frighten him, but the bullet ricochets and hits the rep in the foot. Because of the article, the NHL suggested that the New York Rangers be brought up to Mystery to play the town's team in a televised exhibition game.
Pitcher wants John to coach: Judge Walter Burns, Birdie's father, has refused to do so. John says that he does not know how to coach.
