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The Soviet national ice hockey team was the national men's ice hockey team of the Soviet Union. From 1954, the team won at least one medal each year at either the Ice Hockey World Championships or the Olympic hockey tournament. After its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet team competed as the CIS team (part of the Unified Team) at the 1992 Winter ...
The Soviet Union had won the gold medal in five of the six previous Winter Olympic Games, and they were the favorites to win once more in Lake Placid. The Soviet team consisted primarily of full-time players (professional in all but name) with significant experience in international play.
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Feb 25, 2015 · [The USSR won its first gold medal in Olympic hockey in 1956.] They won every world championship and stuff like that. When they played against the NHL superstars, it was pretty much almost even.
Sep 13, 2016 · Other than its stunning 1980 loss to the United States in the Lake Placid, the Soviet hockey team won every Olympic gold medal from 1964 to '88. Focus on Sport/Getty Images
- Risto Pakarinen
- The U.S. beat the Russians in a surprise upset in a hockey game 20 years earlier. The Americans won the men’s hockey gold in 1960 thanks to a surprising semifinal win over the defending champion Soviet Union.
- The U.S. head coach was the last player cut from the 1960 team. Bill Cleary agreed to join team USA only if his brother Bob could play. The Clearys got their wish, and as a result, there was not enough room for Herb Brooks.
- Herb Brooks kept telling his players that one of the Russians looked like Stan Laurel. Insisting that Boris Mikhailov resembled the thin Englishman in the comedy duo Laurel & Hardy was an attempt to get the U.S. players to not take the Soviet Union squad so seriously.
- The USSR beat the U.S. 10-3 less than two weeks earlier. In a February 9th exhibition at Madison Square Garden, the Russians expectedly dominated. Combined with the Soviets’ 6-0 victory over a team of NHL All-Stars one year earlier, it looked like a fifth consecutive gold medal was inevitable.
The Soviet national ice hockey team was the national men's ice hockey team of the Soviet Union. From 1954, the team won at least one medal each year at either the Ice Hockey World Championships or the Olympic hockey tournament.
Nov 24, 2009 · In one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, on February 22, 1980, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of college players, defeats the four-time defending gold-medal winning Soviet...
