Search results
Watch the legendary Soviet hockey captain Boris Mikhailov share his thoughts on the Miracle on Ice and his career achievements.
- 3 min
- 375
- KidThunder10
- Describe The Movie in 10 Words Or Fewer
- Best 'Inside Hockey' moment?
- Best On-Ice Hockey moment?
- Favorite Sports Movie Trope?
- Favorite Late-1970S/Early-1980S Hockey Nostalgia?
- Best Actor Not Named Kurt Russell?
- What's The Plot For 'Miracle 2,' Were It Ever to Be Made?
- Any Lingering Questions After Watching?
Emily Kaplan:Great moments are born from great opportunity. Greg Wyshynski:Holy smokes, hockey can look that good? Again! [whistle] Again!
Kaplan: Early during player tryouts, Jim Craig asks Jack O'Callahan if there was a reason Joe Mullen wasn't trying out. "Yeah, about 30,000 of 'em sitting in his New York bank account," O'Callahan says. Mullen, one of the greatest American-born NHL players ever, had just graduated from Boston College. He was undrafted and unaffiliated, and was actu...
Kaplan:Honestly, it's all of the camera angles for the on-ice action. The filmmakers really took advantage here, as the cameras showed us perspectives a typical television broadcast can't. Bill Baker's last-minute goal in the opening Olympic game against Sweden, which earned the U.S. a tie, stood out. We get to see a closeup of the puck on the pass...
Kaplan:Well, it's not exactly my favorite, but my answer here is "the wet blanket wife." Patricia Clarkson does a fine job portraying Patti Brooks, Herb Brooks' wife. Her function in the movie, however, is to hover and nag and ground our protagonist who has life-changing aspirations. The dynamics of being married to a coach are always complicated, ...
Kaplan:Loved seeing television footage recapping the 1979 Challenge Cup -- when the NHL replaced its All-Star Game in 1979 with an exhibition series between top NHL players and the Soviet national team. I thought about this event a lot when I went to Moscow for the KHL All-Star Game in January and how cool it would be to stage a crossover event bet...
Kaplan:Mike Mantenuto, who played Jack O'Callahan. His performance in this movie is great, but it also haunts me. Mantenuto was a former college hockey player himself at Maine, and this is his most high-profile role as an actor. About six years after filming, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as a Special Forces soldier. In 2017, at age 35, h...
Kaplan: Two options here. I wouldn't mind seeing a movie version of the Vegas Golden Knights' inaugural season -- really leaning into the whole Golden Misfits narrative. The stakes aren't quite as high, but there's enough interesting characters and against-all-odds build up to make a good film. An inside-the-war-room (dramatized) depiction of the e...
Kaplan:The most famous scene in this movie is of course Kurt Russell's locker room speech before the big game against the Soviets in the Olympics. It's stirring, it's powerful, and it includes five or so chunk quotes that have been quoted ad nauseam -- including by yours truly. But I want to know, how authentic was the speech compared to what Brook...
- 2 min
- Emily Kaplan,Greg Wyshynski
16. Some of the Soviet players took the loss in stride. The first Russian Mark Johnson shook hands with after the game had a smile on his face. When Johnson and Eric Strobel ran into Valeri ...
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
May 31, 2020 · Ryan Walter, a veteran of 15 seasons in the NHL, is brought on board to help as a hockey technical advisor. He also plays the referee in the U.S.-Soviet game and works as a stand-in for Russell. O ...
Feb 2, 2001 · Channel 5 has agreed to renew its deal to carry 50 Yankees games this season for a small increase above the $18.5 million fee that it paid in 2000. A version of this article appears in print on ...
Aug 15, 2014 · E. M. Swift. Aug 15, 2014. For SI's 60th anniversary, we asked readers to vote on the most iconic cover in the magazine's history. The winner was the March 3, 1980 "Miracle on Ice" cover, which ...
