Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
They were the bad boys of hockey — a team bought by a man with mob ties, run by his 17-year-old son, and with a rep for being as violent as they were good.
This Netflix Untold sports documentary covers the Danbury Trashers, a minor league hockey team with genuine mob-adjacent intrigue and the novelty of a teenager running a team. The story itself is compelling and strange enough to lift it above average, but the filmmaking follows the standard talking-heads-plus-archival-footage template common to streaming sports docs. There's no standout cinematography or particularly artful construction. The ending resolves naturally given the real-world events but doesn't deliver any surprising or resonant conclusion beyond the facts. Acting is not applicable in the traditional sense, but interview subjects are serviceable. Novelty gets a modest boost from the genuinely bizarre and specific subject matter.