It's the seventh game of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Darren McCord (Jean Claude Van Damme) is an ex-firefighter who quite years ago after a frightening rescue attempt of a small girl. He is now a fire inspector at the big dome stadium where the game will be played. He has two tickets so he takes his son (Ross Malinger) and daughter (Whittni Wright) to the game with him.

At the game, renegade government operative Joshua Foss (Powers Boothe) breaks into the box of the Vice President of the United States. He calls the president and demands that he transfer zillions of dollars to foreign banks or he will kill people at the end of each period and then kill everyone in the stadium at the end of the game. Most of the movie consists of McCord single-handedly disarming the bombs while Foss's large team of bad guys try to stop him.