Coach Brooks did the impossible with those great hockey players. The USA needed something good to feel about back then and those boys gave that to us. Many thanks boys.
I was born in 1993 But I watch the movie miracle at least 6+ times a year Hockey and that feeling of overcoming everything to win just one game It will never leave my heart My dad has so many tapes and and anecdotes to add to this about how all the things in the world affected him and how he watched that miracle happen and just change his perspective in things. Even if it's dirty and arduous You can succeed
People that don't or didn't follow hockey have no idea what an impossible task this ragtag bunch of college students had in front of them that day when they took the ice against the Soviet machine. That Soviet team were only "amateurs" in the technical sense. They were all in the Red Army and were paid as soldiers, but the job they really got paid for was playing hockey. They had all been playing together since they were small boys. That team regularly embarrassed the NHL all stars. Team USA beating them that day was the modern day equivalent of a bunch of college basketball players getting together on short notice and beating the NBA all stars. It wasn't just miraculous, it was impossible.
There was no gold medal game, and no semifinals. It was a round robin medal round with four teams, two from both preliminary groups, each team playing one team once and team with most points after three games won the gold.
Calling it the “gold medal game” isn’t wrong. It was the game that decided whether they got the gold medal or not. Anyone that cares knows it was round robin, but since that was the game that gave us the points to win the medal, it is the gold medal game.
You also have to remember that the medal round was only two games. The game each team played against in the preliminary round that also qualified counted in the medal round too. In the case of the USA, it was their tie versus Sweden.
@@RoyalMela no, they are named based on which the winning team earned by winning. So the Soviets final game was a silver medal game, because they earned silver by winning.
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Love the interview, could listen to stories about this Team forever!!!
Coach Brooks did the impossible with those great hockey players. The USA needed something good to feel about back then and those boys gave that to us. Many thanks boys.
I was born in 1993
But I watch the movie miracle at least 6+ times a year
Hockey and that feeling of overcoming everything to win just one game
It will never leave my heart
My dad has so many tapes and and anecdotes to add to this about how all the things in the world affected him and how he watched that miracle happen and just change his perspective in things. Even if it's dirty and arduous
You can succeed
People that don't or didn't follow hockey have no idea what an impossible task this ragtag bunch of college students had in front of them that day when they took the ice against the Soviet machine. That Soviet team were only "amateurs" in the technical sense. They were all in the Red Army and were paid as soldiers, but the job they really got paid for was playing hockey. They had all been playing together since they were small boys. That team regularly embarrassed the NHL all stars. Team USA beating them that day was the modern day equivalent of a bunch of college basketball players getting together on short notice and beating the NBA all stars. It wasn't just miraculous, it was impossible.
Hockey is growing pretty well in the USA we just need more national coverage and more outreach
There was no gold medal game, and no semifinals. It was a round robin medal round with four teams, two from both preliminary groups, each team playing one team once and team with most points after three games won the gold.
Ok nerd .
Calling it the “gold medal game” isn’t wrong. It was the game that decided whether they got the gold medal or not. Anyone that cares knows it was round robin, but since that was the game that gave us the points to win the medal, it is the gold medal game.
You also have to remember that the medal round was only two games. The game each team played against in the preliminary round that also qualified counted in the medal round too. In the case of the USA, it was their tie versus Sweden.
@@Pyrrho66 So then all games in medal round were gold medal games, because all contributed to the fact USA won gold.
@@RoyalMela no, they are named based on which the winning team earned by winning. So the Soviets final game was a silver medal game, because they earned silver by winning.