In 1976, Walter Matthau’s “The Bad News Bears” began the “misfits v. the champs” kid’s sports movie genre. Their box office success was quickly followed up by the “Sandlot” franchise and it wasn’t long before Disney jumped into the rink with a hockey version of the tale. A group of misfit kids who are on the bottom of the athletic food chain ban together under unbelievable odds with a damaged coach and take on the champions who discarded them in the first place.