From someone who was alive when that happened, it is good to see the story again.
I realise some of you who aren't old enough to remember, or live outside the U.S. don't appreciate the story.
It's different for some people though who lived through it. Hockey has alway been a big thing here in Michigan. Back in that time there was a little league here called the International Hockey League. It eventually got bigger and then later folded, but at the time it was a pretty small market.
Some of those kids had played briefly in places like Flint, Saginaw, Port Huron and Toledo. If they were good and played hard for quite a few years, they
might of had a shot at the NHL. Local teams were farm teams, but it was still several steps below the big leagues.
Most NHL teams were still getting their players from Canada. The U.S. minor leagues were still not taken seriously and neither were the U.S. colleges.
The 1980 "Miracle" team changed that. as JoeyB said above,
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The Russians were supposed to kick that team's ass---and they didn't. The U.S. team was a bunch of college kids who didn't belong on the same ice as that powerful team and they still won.
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So forgive us for clinging to a 20-year-old story, but some of us have a little deeper connection to it. I can walk upstairs right now and talk to someone here at work who is related to Ken Morrow. He not only played high school hockey here, he won a gold medal. Had he not been on that team, the Islanders would have never given him the time of day. But he was, they did and now he has four Stanley Cups as well.
Do I believe in miracles?
I have since then.