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10 Comments

  1. GoBucks9 wrote:

    nice.

    Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 9:36 am | Permalink
  2. SovSport wrote:

    I can’t believe you are still celebrating that one and only win :) Imagine if we celebrated every win… We’d have so many museums :)

    Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 10:05 am | Permalink
  3. pucksandbooks wrote:

    Someone is going to be very startled at the requirements for Russian nationals at their American naturalization ceremonies. It is a requirement made only of our Russian friends: they must reproduce in writing Coach Brooks’ famous pre-game address to his American team from February 22, 1980, and immortalized in ‘Miracle’; faithfully identify all of the coach’s line combinations from that night; and of course sing the Star Spangled Banner with a Minnesota accent.

    Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 11:15 am | Permalink
  4. SovSport wrote:

    There must be a waiver available, like the one given to people who cannot “bear arms” due to their beliefs :)

    Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 12:29 pm | Permalink
  5. Stimpy wrote:

    I’m currently in St. Paul this week and yesterday stood next to the Herb Brooks statue near the Excel Energy Center. The Miracle aura abounded yesterday.

    Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 1:04 pm | Permalink
  6. TG wrote:

    For years, I knew my cousin had attended the 1980 Olympics, and family lore had it that he went to the US-USSR game. (We all knew he had gone to a US hockey game and everyone just assumed it was that one.) At a family reunion last year I asked him about it, having never heard the story first-hand.

    “Paul, I know you went to the 1980 Olympics. I was wondering did you attend”

    He stopped me. “No, I didn’t go to the US-Russia game. I had tickets for the NEXT game (US-Finland) and my friends and I were headed to Lake Placid for something else before that and got to town about 2 hours after the US-Russia game ended, and it was just utter chaos there for the next 7-8 hours.”

    Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 4:16 pm | Permalink
  7. pucksandbooks wrote:

    TG - Thanks for sharing your family’s experience. Accounts like yours terrifically enhance our modest blog files.

    Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 8:00 pm | Permalink
  8. Andrew wrote:

    I walked into the arena in Lake Placid in about 1984. I snuck in when there was nothing going on…it was about the same as photo #4, but without the skaters.

    I was only in there for about three minutes. It was eerie to have the same spine tingle as I have each time I hear “Do you believe in miracles…?”

    And, I still curse Renee Poussaint.

    Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 9:29 pm | Permalink
  9. OrderedChaos wrote:

    Check out this excellent USA jersey photo on Tapeleg’s Jerseys and Hockey Love blog:
    http://jerseysandhockeylove.com/blog/2006/08/18/jersey-usa-usa-usa/

    I love the old Lake Placid patch!

    Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 1:28 am | Permalink
  10. pass shoot score wrote:

    Thanks for the wonderful photos OFB. It’s time for me to watch the “Miracle” again. SovSport, your comments made me laugh, but I can’t imagine ever seeing another improbable victory like that game. But, if the Caps & Ovie hoist the Cup one day, I’ll have an equally enjoyable hockey game memory for this century!!

    Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 1:49 pm | Permalink

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