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Michael Anthony Eruzione ( / ɪˌruːziˈoʊni /, Italian pronunciation: [erutˈtsjoːne], born October 25, 1954) is an American former ice hockey player. He is best known as the captain of the 1980 Winter Olympics United States national team that defeated the Soviet Union in the famous " Miracle on Ice " game, in which he scored the game-winning goal.
Statistics and Records of Mike Eruzione, a hockey player and coach from Winthrop, MA born Oct 25 1954 who was active from 1973 to 1980.
Feb 22, 2020 · In the 1980 Olympics, Mike Eruzione helped pull of the Miracle on Ice. 40 years later, though, what is the Team USA captain up to?
Feb 1, 2020 · On the night before the big game 40 years ago, Mike Eruzione was drinking Miller High Life with his parents in a Winnebago they had hired for the Olympics.
Feb 7, 2020 · In an excerpt from his new book, Mike Eruzione takes readers inside the final desperate minutes of the US Olympic hockey team’s 1980 “Miracle on Ice.”
Apr 25, 2021 · Mike Eruzione, a gold medal winner for the 1980 U.S.A. hockey team, was center stage in the most significant team-sporting event of the 20th Century. If the 1938 Joe Louis-Max Schmeling bout was billed as ‘Democracy vs. Fascism’, then the 1980 ‘Miracle on Ice’ story was ‘Democracy vs. Communism’.
Skippered by the 25-year-old Mike Eruzione, the US team was made up of largely inexperienced amateur and college players. Inspired by the support of the home fans, however, the Americans drew with Sweden and beat Czechoslovakia, Norway, Romania and West Germany in the first round to join the Soviets in the round-robin medal group.
Feb 18, 2020 · The captain of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team owns a last name that means “eruption” in Italian. Eruzione scored the decisive goal in the U.S.’ 4-3 win over the Soviet Union en route to a shock gold medal during the Cold War in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Feb 22, 2023 · More than four decades after Winthrop's Mike Eruzione scored the semifinal game-winning hockey goal against USSR in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the "Miracle...
Feb 21, 2020 · With 10 minutes left in the game, it was Winthrop's Mike Eruzione, Team USA's captain, who scored the winning goal. Radio Boston spoke with Eruzione, who now works at Boston University, about...
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