1980 USA "MIRACLE ON ICE" OLYMPIC HOCKEY TEAM SIGNED BEAUTIFULLY FRAMED

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1980 USA "MIRACLE ON ICE" OLYMPIC HOCKEY TEAM SIGNED .
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Miracle on Ice.
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United States
No.
Pos.
Name
Age
Hometown
College
30
G
*
Jim Craig
21
North Easton, MA
Boston U.
3
D
*
Ken Morrow
22
Flint, MI
Bowling Green
5
D
*
Mike Ramsey
19
Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota
10
C
*
Mark Johnson
22
Madison, WI
Wisconsin
24
LW
*
Rob McClanahan
22
Saint Paul, MN
Minnesota
8
RW
*
Dave Silk
21
Scituate, MA
Boston U.
6
D
Bill Baker
(
A
)
22
Grand Rapids, MN
Minnesota
9
C
Neal Broten
20
Roseau, MN
Minnesota
23
D
Dave Christian
20
Warroad, MN
North Dakota
11
RW
Steve Christoff
21
Richfield, MN
Minnesota
21
LW
Mike Eruzione
(
C
)
25
Winthrop, MA
Boston U.
28
RW
John Harrington
22
Virginia, MN
Minnesota-Duluth
1
G
Steve Janaszak
22
Saint Paul, MN
Minnesota
17
D
Jack O'Callahan
22
Charlestown, MA
Boston U.
16
C
Mark Pavelich
21
Eveleth, MN
Minnesota-Duluth
25
LW
Buzz Schneider
25
Grand Rapids, MN
Minnesota
19
RW
Eric Strobel
21
Rochester, MN
Minnesota
20
D
Bob Suter
22
Madison, WI
Wisconsin
27
LW
Phil Verchota
22
Duluth, MN
Minnesota
15
C
Mark Wells
21
St. Clair Shores, MI
Bowling Green
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Miracle on Ice
1
2
3
Total
Soviet Union
2
1
0
3
United States
2
0
2
4
Date
February 22, 1980
Arena
Olympic Center
City
Lake Placid
,
New York
, U.S.
Attendance
8,500
The Herb Brooks Arena in the Olympic Center at Lake Placid, New York hosted the match
The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's
ice hockey
game during the
1980 Winter Olympics
at
Lake Placid, New York
, on Friday, February 22. The
United States national team
, made up of
amateur
and
collegiate
players and led by coach
Herb Brooks
, defeated the
Soviet Union national team
, which had won the gold medal in six of the seven previous Olympic games.
Team USA
went on to
win the gold medal
by winning its last match over
Finland
. The Soviet Union took the silver medal by beating
Sweden
in its final game. In 1999,
Sports Illustrated
named the "Miracle on Ice" the Top Sports Moment of the 20th Century. As part of its 100th anniversary celebrations in 2008, the
International Ice Hockey Federation
(IIHF) chose the "Miracle on Ice" as the century's number-one international ice hockey story.
Contents
1
History
1.1
The Soviet and American teams
1.2
Exhibitions
1.3
Olympic group play
1.4
Preparing for the medal round
2
Game summary
2.1
First period
2.2
Second period
2.3
Third period
3
American aftermath
3.1
Gold medal
3.2
After 1980 Winter Olympics
3.3
Later careers
4
Soviet aftermath
4.1
Silver medal
4.2
After 1980 Winter Olympics
4.3
NHL careers
5
Notable rematches
6
Film and television
7
Team rosters
7.1
United States
7.2
Soviet Union
8
Box score
9
References
10
External links
History
The Soviet and American team
The Soviet team's Vladislav Tretiak (pictured here in 2008) was considered the best goaltender in ice hockey in 1980. The Americans scored two goals against him before he was pulled from the game at the end of the first period.
The Soviet Union entered the Lake Placid games as the heavy favorite, having won the previous four ice hockey gold medals dating back to the
1964
games. In the four Olympics following their
1960
upset by Team USA
at Squaw Valley, Soviet teams had gone 27–1–1 (wins-losses-ties) and outscored the opposition 175–44. In head-to-head match-ups against the United States, the cumulative score over that period was 28–7. The Soviet players, some of whom were active-duty military, played in a well-developed league with world-class training facilities. They were led by legendary players in world ice hockey, such as
Boris Mikhailov
(a top line
right winger
and team captain),
Vladislav Tretiak
(the consensus best goaltender in the world at the time), the speedy and skilled
Valeri Kharlamov
, as well as talented, young, and dynamic players such as defenseman
Viacheslav Fetisov
and forwards
Vladimir Krutov
and
Sergei Makarov
. From that team, Tretiak, Kharlamov, and Fetisov would eventually be enshrined in the
Hockey Hall of Fame
. Many of the Soviet players had gained attention in the
Summit Series
eight years previous and, in contrast to the American players, were seasoned veterans with long histories of international play.
U.S. head coach Herb Brooks conducted tryouts in
Colorado Springs
in the summer of 1979. Of the 20 players who eventually made the final Olympic roster,
Buzz Schneider
was the only one returning from the
1976
Olympic team. Nine players had played under Brooks at the
University of Minnesota
, which included
Rob McClanahan
,
Mike Ramsey
, and
Phil Verchota
; while four more were from
Boston University
:
Dave Silk
,
Jack O'Callahan
, goalie
Jim Craig
, and team captain
Mike Eruzione
. Boston and Minnesota were perennial rivals in college hockey and the hostility carried over from some of the players on the Olympic team for the first few months. The average age of the U.S. team was 21 years old, making it the youngest team in U.S. team history to play in the Olympics and would be the youngest team in the Olympic tournament. Assistant coach
Craig Patrick
had played with Brooks on the 1967 U.S. national team.
The Soviet and American teams were natural rivals due to the decades-old
Cold War
. In addition,
President
Jimmy Carter
was at the time considering a
U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics
, to be held in
Moscow
, in protest of the December 1979
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
. On February 9, the same day that the American and Soviet teams met in an exhibition game in
New York City
, U.S.
Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance
denounced the impending
Moscow games
at a meeting of the
International Olympic Committee
(IOC).President Carter eventually decided in favor of the boycott.
Exhibitions
Mark Johnson's goal in the last second of the first period tied the game
In exhibitions that year, Soviet club teams went 5–3–1 against
National Hockey League
(NHL) teams, and a year earlier, the Soviet national team had routed the NHL All-Stars 6–0 to win the
Challenge Cup
. In 1979–80, virtually all the top North American players were Canadians, although the number of U.S.-born professional players had been on the rise throughout the 1970s. The 1980 U.S. Olympic team featured several young players who were regarded as highly promising, and some had signed contracts to play in the NHL immediately after the tournament.
In the September before the Olympics, the American team started exhibition play. They played a total of 61 games in five months against teams from Europe and America. Through these games, Herb Brooks instilled a European style of play in the American team, emphasizing wide open play with sufficient body contact. He believed it would be the only way for the Americans to compete with the Soviets. In the last exhibition game against the Soviets at
Madison Square Garden
on February 9, 1980, the Soviets crushed the Americans 10–3. Soviet head coach
Viktor Tikhonov
later said that this victory "turned out to be a very big problem" by causing the Soviets to underestimate the American team. The game was also costly for the Americans off-ice, as defenseman
Jack O'Callahan
pulled a ligament in his knee; however, Brooks kept O'Callahan on the roster which meant virtually playing with only 19 players throughout the tournament. O'Callahan would eventually return for the game against the Soviets playing limited minutes.
Olympic group play
In Olympic group play, the Americans surprised many observers with their physical, cohesive play. In their first game against favored
Sweden
, Team USA earned a dramatic 2–2 draw by scoring with 27 seconds left after pulling goalie
Jim Craig
for an extra attacker. Had Team USA not scored this goal and all other results remained the same, the Soviet Union would have emerged with the gold medal on goal differential over the U.S. in the medal round. Then came a stunning 7–3 victory over
Czechoslovakia
, who were a favorite for the silver medal. With its two toughest games in the group phase out of the way, the U.S. team reeled off three more wins, beating
Norway
5–1,
Romania
7–2, and
West Germany
4–2 to go 4–0–1 and advance to the medal round from its group, along with Sweden.
In the other group, the Soviets stormed through their opposition undefeated, often by grossly lopsided scores. They defeated
Japan
16–0, the
Netherlands
17–4,
Poland
8–1,
Finland
4–2, and
Canada
6–4 to easily qualify for the next round, although both the Finns and the Canadians gave the Soviets tough games for two periods. In the end, the Soviet Union and Finland advanced from their group.
Preparing for the medal round
The U.S. and Soviet teams prepared for the medal round in different ways. Soviet coach
Viktor Tikhonov
rested most of his best players, preferring to let them study plays rather than actually skate. U.S. coach
Herb Brooks
, however, continued with his tough, confrontational style, skating hard practices and berating his players for perceived weaknesses and to build stamina. Brooks' goal was to have his team be able to keep up with the Soviets through all three periods.
[
citation needed
]
The day before the match, columnist
Dave Anderson
wrote in the
New York Times
, "Unless the ice melts, or unless the United States team or another team performs a
miracle
, as did the American squad in
1960
, the Russians are expected to easily win the Olympic gold medal for the sixth time in the last seven tournaments."
[17]
Game summary
With a capacity of 8,500, the Field House was packed.
[18]
The home crowd waved
U.S. flags
and sang patriotic songs such as "
God Bless America
".
[11]
The game was aired live on
CTV
in
Canada
, but not
ABC
in the United States. Thus, American viewers who resided in or near Canadian border regions and received the CTV signal could watch the game live, but the rest of the United States had to wait for a delayed rebroadcast.
After the Soviets declined a request to move the game from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for U.S. television (this would have meant a 4 a.m. start in Moscow for Soviet viewers), ABC decided to broadcast the late-afternoon game on tape delay in prime time.
[19]
To this day some of the people that watched the game on television still believe that it was live.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."
First period
As in several previous games, the U.S. team fell behind early.
Vladimir Krutov
deflected a slap shot by
Alexei Kasatonov
past U.S. goaltender Jim Craig at the 9:12 mark to give the Soviets a 1–0 lead, and after
Buzz Schneider
scored for the United States at 14:03 to tie the game, the Soviets struck again with a
Sergei Makarov
goal with 17:34 gone. With his team down 2–1, Craig improved his play, turning away many Soviet shots before the U.S. team had another shot on goal (the Soviet team had 39 shots on goal in the game, the Americans 16).
In the waning seconds of the first period,
Dave Christian
fired a slap shot on Tretiak from 100 feet (30 m) away. The Soviet goalie saved the shot but misplayed the
rebound
, which bounced out some 20 feet (6.1 m) in front of him.
Mark Johnson
sliced between the two defenders, found the loose puck, and fired it past a diving Tretiak to tie the score with one second left in the period. This would be an important judgment call by the officials, as an official announcement confirming the goal did not come until many Soviet players were off the ice and heading to the locker room for intermission. The first period ended with the game tied 2–2.
Second period
Tikhonov replaced Tretiak with backup goaltender
Vladimir Myshkin
immediately after Johnson's tying goal, a move which shocked players on both  Tikhonov later identified this as the "turning point of the game", and called it "the biggest mistake of my career". Years later, when Johnson asked
Viacheslav Fetisov
, now an NHL teammate, about the move, Fetisov responded with "Coach crazy".Myshkin allowed no goals in the second period. The Soviets dominated play in the second period, outshooting the Americans 12–2, but scored only once, on a
power play
goal by
Aleksandr Maltsev
2:18 into play. After two periods the Soviet Union led 3–2.
Third period
Vladimir Krutov was sent to the
penalty box
at the 6:47 mark of the third period for
high-sticking
. The Americans, who had managed only two shots on Myshkin in 27 minutes, had a power play and a rare offensive opportunity. Myshkin stopped a
Mike Ramsey
shot, then U.S. team captain
Mike Eruzione
fired a shot wide. Late in the power play,
Dave Silk
was advancing into the Soviet zone when
Valeri Vasiliev
knocked him to the ice. The puck slid to Mark Johnson.Johnson fired off a shot that went under Myshkin and into the net at the 8:39 mark, as the power play was ending, tying the game at 3. Only a couple of shifts later,
Mark Pavelich
passed to Eruzione, who was left undefended in the high
slot
. Eruzione, who had just come onto the ice, fired a shot past Myshkin, who was
screened
by
Vasili Pervukhin
. This goal gave Team USA a 4–3 lead, its first of the game, with 10 minutes remaining.
The Soviets, trailing for the first time in the game, attacked ferociously. Moments after Eruzione's goal, Maltsev fired a shot which ricocheted off the right goal post.As the minutes wound down, Brooks kept repeating to his players, "Play your game. Play your game. Instead of going into a defensive crouch, the United States continued to play offense, even getting off a few more shots on goal. The Soviets began to shoot wildly, and
Sergei Starikov
admitted that "we were panicking". As the clock ticked down elow a minute, the Soviets got the puck back into the American zone, and Mikhailov passed to
Vladimir Petrov
, who shot wide. The Soviets never pulled Myshkin for an
extra attacker
, much to the Americans' disbelief. Starikov later explained that "We never did six-on-five", not even in practice, because "Tikhonov just didn't believe in it".
[35]
Craig kicked away a Petrov slap shot with 33 seconds left. Kharlamov fired the puck back in as the clock ticked below 20 seconds. A wild scramble for the puck ensued, ending when Johnson found it and passed it to Ken Morrow.As the U.S. team tried to clear the zone (move the puck over the blue line, which they did with seven seconds remaining), the crowd began to count down the seconds left. Sportscaster
Al Michaels
, who was calling the game on
ABC
along with former
Montreal Canadiens
goalie
Ken Dryden
, picked up on the countdown in his broadcast, and delivered his famous call:
11 seconds, you've got 10 seconds, the countdown going on right now!
Morrow
, up to
Silk
. Five seconds left in the game.
Do you believe in miracles?! YES!!!
The March 3, 1980 cover of
Sports Illustrated
ran without any accompanying captions or headlines.
As his team ran all over the ice in celebration, Herb Brooks sprinted back to the locker room and cried. In the locker room afterwards, players spontaneously broke into a chorus of "God Bless America".
During the broadcast wrap-up after the game, ABC Olympic sports anchor Jim McKay compared the American victory over the Soviets to a group of Canadian
college football
players defeating the
Pittsburgh Steelers
(the recent
Super Bowl
champions and at the height of their
dynasty
).
The cover of the March 3, 1980 issue of
Sports Illustrated
was a photograph by
Heinz Kluetmeier
; it did not feature any explanatory captions or headlines, because, as Kluetmeier put it, "It didn't need it. Everyone in America knew what happened".
American aftermath
Gold medal
Jim Craig's gear from 1980, at the Hockey Hall of Fame
The United States did not immediately win the gold medal upon defeating the USSR. In 1980, the medal round was a
round-robin
, not a single elimination format as it is today. Under Olympic rules at the time, the group game with Sweden was counted along with the medal round games versus the Soviet Union and Finland so it was mathematically possible for the United States to finish anywhere from first to fourth.
Despite a starting time of 11 a.m. EST on a Sunday morning, ABC carried the U.S.-Finland game live, displacing the usual political talkshows. (All subsequent American Olympic hockey games have been aired live on a major broadcast network: ABC in 1984 and 1988;
CBS
in 1992, 1994 and 1998; and
NBC
since 2002.)
Needing to win to secure the gold medal, Team USA came back from a 2–1 third period deficit to defeat Finland 4–2.
[16]
According to Mike Eruzione, coming into the dressing room in the second intermission, Brooks turned to his players, looked at them and said, "If you lose this game, you'll take it to your fucking graves."
At the time, the players ascended a podium to receive their medals and then lined up on the ice for the playing of the
national anthem
, as the podium was only meant to accommodate one person. Only the team captains remained on the podium for the duration. After the completion of the anthem, Eruzione motioned for his teammates to join him on the podium.
[41]
Today, podiums are not used for ice hockey; the teams line up on their respective bluelines after the final game.
The U.S. team received
Sports Illustrated
magazine's "
Sportsmen of the Year
" award, as well as being named as Athlete of the Year by the
Associated Press
and
ABC's
Wide World of Sports
. In 2004,
ESPN
, as part of its
25th anniversary
, declared the Miracle on Ice to be the top sports headline moment, and game of the period 1979–2004. The victory was voted the greatest sports moment of the 20th century by
Sports Illustrated
.
[42]
The U.S. team had the honor of lighting the
Olympic cauldron
at the
2002 Winter Olympics
.
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