Sláinte on Ice
Directed by: Luciano Vessot
Stars: Cillian Kavanagh, Ryan Shepard, Andrey Barbashev, Luca Del Vecchio
Produced by: Barry Batsbak

"In a world....where all hockey players are superheros... "record scratch"

"The year is 1980 in Dublin, Ireland. We meet a college drop out named Cillian Kavanagh who was kicked off his hurling team due to non stop drinking and partying. Cillian was a goalkeeper at Trinity College where he excelled in the sport of hurling and was considered to have some of the best reflexes the Irish had seen since Charlie Nash. Hurling was simply not enough for young Cillian who had stumbled across the British playing what looked to be a hurling game on ice which he watched on the telly with ma and pa. Cillian dreamed of more. Although hockey was not established as a sport in Ireland, he would see to it that if more people knew the rules of the sport that it would be convincing enough to form a league at the local rink in Dublin. 
Determined to find local support, Cillian meets Ryan Shepard, a former figure skating player who Cillian saw as a talented centre for his non existent hockey club. The two quickly became friends and began to look for more volunteers to join their club. Ryan introduces Cillian to Andrey Barbashev, a teenage former bronze medal figure skater out of Austria. The three of them managed to find the rest of the team in just 1 month time and begin playing. 
Locals could not believe how entertaining this new sport was to watch; especially former goaltender player and coach Luca De Vecchio. Hockey had long been established in Italy and was on the rise throughout Europe. Del Vecchio was the starting netminder on the 1964 Italian Olympic team. Though hesitant at first, Cillian and the boys made it clear to Del Vecchio that they needed him to coach and establish them as a solid hockey club. Del Vecchio accepted the coaching position and in one year's time they were a developed team. 
In the following years Del Vecchio and Kavanagh helped established youth hockey organizations throughout Ireland with a special focus on goaltending. By 1996, the Ireland was accepted into the IIHF by a nomination from Great Britain and a second by Canada. Kavanagh's group of misfit hockey players was the first movement to establish the great sport of hockey in Ireland.."