Doug Smith could kick your ass-or at the very least, he’d be the author behind that sore face you’d have the following morning.
When the Seann William Scott hockey film, Goon, became a cult favorite among cinemaphiles and hockey fans alike back in 2011, most people figured it was pure make believe. Nonsensical entertainment with no real backbone. They had no idea they were watching an interpretation of Smith’s life as a minor league enforcer who used a boxing background as the ground floor plan to place fists into other men’s faces on a sheet of ice.