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Category Archives: Miracle On Ice

Meet Herb Driscoll of America's Heartland, Eyewitness to the Miracle on Ice

22 February, 2009

Framed in the living room of his St. Albans, Missouri, home are tickets Herb Driscoll and business associates used to attend a very special hockey game in Lake Placid, New York, on February 22, 1980. That Driscoll made it inside the Olympic hockey arena that fateful Friday night is a small miracle in itself.

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Welcoming Back An American Classic

21 November, 2008

So while the Washington Capitals tour the West Coast, why not tour one of the nation’s greatest collections of American artifacts? And if afterwards you’re looking for a hockey-related fix, head on over to the National Gallery of Art’s Ice Skating Rink at the Sculpture Garden (which opened last week) and skate your cares away.

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Wearing the Nation's Colors Next February 22

31 July, 2008

On Sunday, February 22, 2009, the Capitals matinee-host the Pittsburgh Penguins at Verizon Center. That day will commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice, the greatest day in the history of hockey and the greatest day in the history of sports. Summertime question for you: what do you think of the idea of [...]

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Remembering a Broadcast Giant in a Moment of National Glory

11 June, 2008

If Al Michaels was the voice of the Miracle on Ice, Jim McKay — ABC’s only studio presence on the evening of Friday, February 22, 1980 — was surely its face. I was too young to remember the McKay of Munich; in my adolescence of ’80 I hung on his every word. We lost McKay [...]

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Worlds Go Retro

30 April, 2008

This year’s IIHF World Championship Tournament is going old school, if only for one game. Fifteen of the sixteen participating teams will play one preliminary round game with retro sweaters. The sweater each country will wear was selected from what they considered to be a significant year for their national team programs. Belarus is the [...]

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Happy Miracle on Ice Day!

22 February, 2008

A wintry Friday it was 28 years ago today — a lot like today in D.C. A few of you, like us, and actually lived that fabulous Friday 28 years ago. But even if you didn’t, we’d like to know what that seminal day in American sporting history has come to mean to you. Share [...]

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Sniper Jeckyl, Meet Forechecker Hyde

9 November, 2007

One way to react to last night’s PowerBall-winning-odds turn of events in Ottawa is as I did, in foggy disbelief, with the aid of paramedics. Clutching the lapels of the uniform jacket of the young woman from the Bethesda-Chevy Chase rescue squad kneeling over me in my home near 11:00 last night, oxygen mask over [...]

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Long Memory

29 October, 2007

Washington may not be a hockey town, but there are an ample number of hockey lovers in it. And hardcore ones at that. Take Rockville’s Bobby Brendler, who had this nugget in his letter published in the Washington Post†yesterday: “Still don’t watch Channel 7 news since Renee Poussaint revealed that the U.S. beat the Soviet [...]

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The First Miracle on Ice

13 October, 2007

Edwyn “Bob” Owen, Harvard hockey star and defenseman for the 1960 U.S. Gold Medal-winning Olympic team, died last week at the age of 71. For a fascinating look back at the great Olympic team that brought U.S. its first ice hockey gold, check out this article.

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The Adirondacks in August Are Frozen in Time

18 August, 2007

Loyal reader John Wahala shared with us this week photos from his August vacation in the Adirondacks, which included his first-ever visit to Herb Brooks Arena. While we in D.C. were melting John was bluejeaned and sweatshirted and strolling down American hockey’s most Memorable Lane. His images of the arena’s interior bring a fresh perspective [...]

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