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The world of sport is mourning for the loss of former NHL player Guido Tenesi. He was 71 years old.
Tenesi went up to stardom after portraying Billy Charlebois in the sports comedy movie “Slap Sott” in 1977. The American Hockey League franchise, The Hershey Bears, offered condolences on Thursday.
“We are sad to know the death of Guido Tenesi, a member of our list during the 1974 Calder Cup championship, and was known for many more for his role as Billy Charlebois in the classic hockey movie” Slashot “, the Bears wrote in a publication on social networks.” Our hearts are with your family, friends and teammates. “”
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Guido Tenesi, an actor of “Slapshot” attends the Card Sports exhibition at the International Center on November 12, 2022 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
A cause of death was not immediately released.
The Pittsburgh Penguins wrote Tenesi in the fifth round of the 1973 amateur draft. It also spent time competing in multiple professional hockey leagues and had a period of two years with the affiliate of the minor leagues of Penguins in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
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The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton penguins are the current subsidiary of the Penguins, while the Bears serve as the main development team of Washington’s capitals.
Tenesi won the North American Hockey League title when he played for the Johnstown Jets during the 1974-75 season. Tenesi remembered his time with the team and how he helped him get the role in the classic sports film.
A graphic view of the network on the hockey track photographed before the game at the Nassau Memorial Coliseum on March 29, 2012 in Unionle, New York. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
“I played in the same team that Ned Dowd, Dave Hanson and the Carlsons. Ned would walk with a recorder and took notes about everything that happened on one of our road trips,” Tenesi said in 2016 during an interview with the Utica Observer-Dispatch. “If someone stumbled upon the ice, or if a player broke the stick and threw it on the glass, Ned recorded it.”
The “Slap Shot” plot followed the story of a minor leagues hockey team called Charlestown Chiefs. Actor and director Paul Newman portrayed coach Reggie Dunlop in the film.
A general view of a stick and records during the morning skate before the game between the Pittsburgh penguins and the Chicago Blackhawks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
Steve Carlson, who also starred in the film, cried his deceased co -star Tenesi as a “good guy who left too soon.”
“Rip Guido Tenesi” Pretty Boy “Good Guy too soon,” Carlson wrote on Thursday. “On behalf of me and Vicki we send our most sincere condolences. He always had honor and class. Prayers for comfort to the whole family and my teammates and teammates who experience another loss of the teammate.”
In another publication on Friday, Carlson remembered Tenesi as “forever a boss.”
“Rest easy, #5 – you are forever a boss,” he wrote.
