] Steve Carlson is probably the most famous hockey player
] to ever come out of Nashville.
]
] Never heard of him? Maybe the name Steve Hanson rings a
] bell. That was the name of the character he portrayed in
] the 1977 film Slap Shot, a movie many hockey fans
] consider cinematic genius, their Citizen Kane.
]
] Carlson played in the minors for the Nashville South
] Stars of the old Central Hockey League during the 1981-82
] season, notching 23 goals and 39 assists. But he gained
] much more notoriety as one of the rowdy, long-haired,
] goofy glasses-wearing Hanson Brothers who played for the
] fictitious Charlestown Chiefs in Slap Shot.