Campers skated on the Olympic Center ice Monday morning so members of the 1980 U.S. hockey team could evaluate their skills. The Olympians then conducted a draft Monday afternoon at the Lake Placid Conference Center, selecting players to fill four teams: Red, White, Blue and Gold....
NBC Sports Celebrates USA Hockey’s ‘Miracle on Ice’ With 35th Anniversary Special (Exclusive Video) The Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks are getting ready to take the action on the ice outdoors on Saturday, but as the players prepare to lace up their skates, NBC and Nbcsn are reme...
where, being comprised of amateur collegiate players, they defeated the dominant Soviet ice hockey team in the historic "Miracle on Ice," revitalizing morale in the United States at the height of the Cold War, inspiring generations, and transforming the sport of ice hockey in the United States...
Miracle On Ice; 20th ANNIVERSARY; Frozen in time; Twenty years ago tonight the U.S. Olympic hockey team achieved one of sports' greatest upsets, stunning the Soviet Union 4-3 at the Lake Placid Winter Games. The 20 players have gone their separate ways since, but remain bound by the ...
The Soviet players, as awestruck as everyone else, waited patiently to shake their opponents’ hands. The so-called Miracle on Ice was more than just an Olympic upset; to many Americans, it was an ideological victory in the Cold War as meaningful as the Berlin Airlift or the Apollo moon ...
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP)— All these years later, Dave Christian is still quick with a smile when asked about the signature moment of his hockey life — the amazing Miracle on Ice triumph over the Soviet Union. "In sports in general, everyone roots for the underdog, which ...
Before the game, Brooks read his players a statement he had written out on a piece of paper, telling them that "You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours." After his Olympic gold medal win, Brooks moved to Switzerland for a year to coach HC Da...
USA walk out to the ice past a wall covered with countless telegrams and letters from well-wishers; yet Brooks does his best to keep the players insulated from public scrutiny (the players later attested that they had no idea the extent to which the country was hanging on their every play...
Miracle: Directed by Gavin O'Connor. With Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Noah Emmerich, Sean McCann. The true story of Herb Brooks, the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Soviet squad.