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The Long Island Ducks were a minor league hockey team in the Eastern Hockey League owned by Al and Renee Baron that played their home games at the Long Island Arena (usually referred to as Commack Arena). The team played from 1959 until 1973 when the Eastern League folded. The Ducks are most famously known for player-head coach John Brophy who is believed to be the role model for Paul Newman’s character of Reggie Dunlop in the movie Slap Shot.