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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 ...
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The Soviet national ice hockey team [a] 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 ...
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- 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 " Miracle on Ice " was an ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. It was played between the hosting United States and the Soviet Union on February 22, 1980, during the medal round of the men's hockey tournament. Though the Soviet Union was a four-time defending gold medalist and heavily favored, the United ...
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Feb 19, 2020 · On Feb. 22, 1980, the United States ice hockey team, composed exclusively of amateur players, stuns the defending gold medalist Soviet Union at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. (1:47)
Feb 22, 2023 · The Soviet Dominance. The Soviet Union’s ice hockey team was the dominant force in the sport in the 1960s and 1970s. They had won every major international tournament since 1964, including four consecutive Olympic gold medals. The Soviet team was made up of professional players, while the US team was comprised of college students and amateur ...
Feb 24, 2016 · Had the United States lost to Finland on Feb. 24, 1980, the Soviet Union — yes, the same Soviets the U.S. defeated in the "Miracle on Ice" game two days prior — would have won the gold medal ...
