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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Feb 10, 2024 14:47:27 GMT -8
Someplace here we had a thread on the greatest moments in Olympics history, can't find it now. But I found this gem while crawling down a rabbit hole today. It still gives me chills, 44 years later. I remember exactly where I was that Friday night, and ion Sunday when we beat the Finns for the gold medal.
If you're having a FML day, this will cure that!
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Post by Judge Smails on Feb 10, 2024 18:49:26 GMT -8
Someplace here we had a thread on the greatest moments in Olympics history, can't find it now. But I found this gem while crawling down a rabbit hole today. It still gives me chills, 44 years later. I remember exactly where I was that Friday night, and ion Sunday when we beat the Finns for the gold medal. If you're having a FML day, this will cure that! It is still one of my favorite moments in sports, but I still can’t believe how many people think that was the gold medal game. We still had to win another game for the gold. |
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Post by seastape on Feb 10, 2024 20:45:09 GMT -8
Someplace here we had a thread on the greatest moments in Olympics history, can't find it now. But I found this gem while crawling down a rabbit hole today. It still gives me chills, 44 years later. I remember exactly where I was that Friday night, and ion Sunday when we beat the Finns for the gold medal. If you're having a FML day, this will cure that! It is still one of my favorite moments in sports, but I still can’t believe how many people think that was the gold medal game. We still had to win another game for the gold. That is true, but it is also true that the Soviets were the true prize in the tournament, with a team that probably could've gone head-to-head with most (all?) NHL teams. It was one of those unfortunate tournaments where the best two teams did not play in the final game. |
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Post by beavaristotle on Feb 11, 2024 11:09:20 GMT -8
ESPN did a great 30 for 30 doc on the miracle on ice from the Soviet perspective called Of miracles and men. The lost to team USA put in motion a chain of events that lead to Soviet players being able to leave Russian and become professionals in the NHL. At the end of the doc there is a great quote by a Soviet hockey player. “ it wasn’t a miracle the team USA beat us , you want to see a real miracle “ as he holds up the Stanley Cup while standing in Red Square
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Feb 11, 2024 13:55:32 GMT -8
February 9, 1980 was the 10-3 Soviet win over the Americans at MSG.
February 12, 1980 was the tie in the opener against Sweden.
The first six hockey games were on the 12th. Opening Ceremonies were on the 13th.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Feb 11, 2024 14:28:46 GMT -8
It is still one of my favorite moments in sports, but I still can’t believe how many people think that was the gold medal game. We still had to win another game for the gold. That is true, but it is also true that the Soviets were the true prize in the tournament, with a team that probably could've gone head-to-head with most (all?) NHL teams. It was one of those unfortunate tournaments where the best two teams did not play in the final game. In 1979, the Soviets beat the NHL All-Stars in two games at Madison Square Gardens, 5-4 and 6-0. Of course, the 1979 NHL All-Stars consisted of 23 Canadians and 3 Swedes. Bobby Orr actually referred to the assembled NHL All-Stars as Team Canada at least once. The 1980 Olympics were set up as a round robin. The top four teams were Finland, the Soviets, Sweden, and the United States. The Soviets beat Finland and Sweden tied the United States. Each team then had to play the other two teams that they had not previously played. Sweden actually had the tiebreaker over the United States, because of goal differential in the final four games, so they got Finland first, and the United States got the Soviets. The teams switched in the final game. The United States clinched the gold medal with the win over Finland on the 24th. The Soviet Union won the silver medal by beating Sweden later in the day. The United States actually did not have to win the final game against Finland. But it could have potentially fallen to tiebreakers, which did not generally favor the United States, depending on the Soviet-Sweden result. |
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Post by seastape on Feb 11, 2024 16:29:02 GMT -8
Another miracle on ice happened for the 1980 US Winter Olympic Team: The US won 6 gold medals that Olympics. The men's ice hockey team won one and men's speed skater Eric Heiden took the other five, winning every men's race, setting Olympic records in every one of those five, and breaking the World record in the 10,000 meters by over six seconds. It was the most dominating performance in Winter Olympic history.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Feb 11, 2024 16:49:41 GMT -8
Another miracle on ice happened for the 1980 US Winter Olympic Team: The US won 6 gold medals that Olympics. The men's ice hockey team won one and men's speed skater Eric Heiden took the other five, winning every men's race, setting Olympic records in every one of those five, and breaking the World record in the 10,000 meters by over six seconds. It was the most dominating performance in Winter Olympic history. Another interesting fact is that Eric's younger sister, Beth, won one of the two American bronzes, her only Olympic medal. The two Heidens won half of the American medals in 1980. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Feb 11, 2024 20:59:39 GMT -8
February 9, 1980 was the 10-3 Soviet win over the Americans at MSG. February 12, 1980 was the tie in the opener against Sweden. The first six hockey games were on the 12th. Opening Ceremonies were on the 13th. Bill Baker with a goal in the final minute to tie the Swedes 2-2. A couple days later, when we beat the Czechs, we were for real. "Take that Koho and shove it up your a**!," Herbie's trash-talking to some Czech player. US defenseman Ken Morrow joined the Islanders after the Olympics and won the Stanley Cup that year. Finland's goalie in the final game was future NHL star Pelle Lindbergh. We beat the best. Not all stories have a happy ending. Matt Pavelich had a troubled life after hockey and Lindbergh died in a 1985 car crash at 26. |
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Post by beaverdude on Feb 12, 2024 7:52:15 GMT -8
I didn't see the game. I was deployed on a training mission sitting in a fighting hole waiting for "the enemy" to try and infiltrate our perimeter.
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