So despite being hired as a consultant, this movie featured very little hockey. But that's not to say it wasn't representative of the league. They realized they didn't have the budget to do a lot of the action so a lot of the hockey is actual CGI. It ended up being more of a backstage drama. The first act focuses on the controversy surrounding international recruiting. This involved forging birth certificates to give players residence of certain nations. It then followed the backlash and fallout from such decisions. The second act focuses on damage control. Every time a complaint is voiced whether internally or externally, the league has a damage control specialist who comes in to mitigate or outright dismiss the problem. They will even flat out deny there are problems at all. The second act is where a lot of the audience might get confused about what they are actually watching. The final act of the film takes place in the distant future. The surviving members of head office are in a cemetery surrounded by tombstones of all the former players. One member says to another while vaping, "Our work is done. I think we ran off all the bad people. Let's play." There are only two teams left. Worley makes a cameo as one of the groundskeepers.

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