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If there’s one movie I’d like to see get made this year, it is Kevin Smith’s planned production of Hit Somebody, a hockey movie based on a Warren Zevon song written by Mitch Albom. In this writer’s mind, the combination of Kevin Smith and hockey (and hopefully a solid cinematographer) is the perfect storm of awesome. Smith is a well-chronicled fan of the game, including it in bits of his previous films like Clerks.

As well, its been a while since we’ve had a good hockey comedy. 2004 brought us Gavin O’Connor’s Miracle, perhaps the best possible telling of the greatest story in sports history. Beyond that, there’s been a dearth of hockey movies since the 1970s — an era that brought us Slap Shot – and those of us who wish we’d have been born Canadian (and with skates on) feel under-represented. 1999′s Mystery Alaska is a clear exception, but the point stands.

And from the sound of things, this is probably going to happen. In an interview with Mitch Albom (found via The Playlist), Smith talked about wanting to shoot Hit Somebody next year in Detroit at the Joe Louis Arena, home of the Detroit Red Wings (barf — says the Chicago Blackhawks fan inside me).

At some point I will surely do a list of the best hockey movies of all-time (which all seem to reside in my collection), but for the time being I will say this: I cannot see a better next film for Smith, a return to his passion and a chance for him to write and direct something with humor and action. And based on what Smith said in this interview, I’m not alone. “This is the one, dude, honestly,” Smith explains. “Like I’ve loved everything I’ve made and what not but this one is different. I can feel it. Maybe it’s ’cause I’ve reached a place in my career where I was like ‘you know what, I’m tired of saying things.’ I’m very blessed, got to write every script, got to express the heck out of myself. Everything has happen at the right time and Hit Somebody just makes so much sense to me.”

I say go for it, big guy.