When a Bunch of College Hockey Kids Created a ‘Miracle’ 

kazakhstan beating canada is a bigger uset this anit no miracle

The sad part is that because of the scoring system Finland didn’t even get a bronze medal

@@excelsior3381 yes, this was before they went to knockout rounds to determine the medalists. The US / Finland game was not even the last game of the tournament, as the Soviets played the Swedes in was what essentially the silver medal game after the US clinched the Gold. I remember the medal ceremony when the US were in track suits while the other two teams were still in uniform

@@jasonanderson5034College kids vs talent that transcended the NHL with ease isn’t a miracle?

@@alatreon7451 no... not a all ...kazakhstan beat a more stacked team canada with the best playersin the world nobody calls that a miracle it wasnt just colleg kids their were nhl quality player son that team .... all kazakhstan had was nik antropov

Interesting fact.... the movie Miracle was filmed in Vancouver and all the extras who chanted USA in the movie were canadian

I'm Canadian too, but for 60 minutes I felt as American as I ever have.

@@1982kinger Bill Ranford was the on-ice extra goaltender for Jim Craig in Miracle.

Wait until you’re in West Virginia and hear the sound of a banjo playing in the distance.

@@1982kingernot all of the movie was shot there. I worked on the film and tried out as a player casted in Minnesota. They wanted hockey players they could coach to act, not coach to play. This is why the film was so damn good at creating the best moment in sports of the 20th century by sports illustrated.

Al Michaels is the G.O.A.T. (I know that gets a little over-used these days) at color commentary. He's just so quick and sharp, and has an excellent sense of the high drama of sports not needing overreaction or excessive eloquence to convey.

I had a tournament in the Olympic Center where the game took place and Al Michaels's “Do you believe in miracles” quote was on the wall

I was the same age. No kid will every feel or understand a moment like that in their lives ever again. It was a rare moment in time and a rare moment in sports. The soviets nearly didn’t show up because of political pressure. Fucking unbelievable really. Al Michaels voice was not manufactured, it was in complete disbelief.

Yes. It was unforgettable. Craig's goaltending was hugely inspiring. The team had heart. It was a very familiar feeling--to be an underdog but to finally pull off something magical on the ice. They are the greatest underdog of all time.

I visit Lake Placid every year and I always love seeing the old Olympic architecture on the drive in.

Hey GET2222, What HS in Minnesota did you go to?

thats crazy story!! coaches have a great influence especially with young kids

Nice! That's so cool!

just had to make it about you..... 😅

What State and town?

That’s epic

I agree with that, always thought pulling the goalie was weird and just made it more vulnerable. All it takes is one of em to get into the open ice and it's game over

Likely not. His players respected him. That's why torts isn't blacklisted.

Yes!

Bobby Clarkes Ankle Tomahawk was all skill 🤣

@@mikesxoom Can't disagree with you there. Canadian hockey players can get pretty dirty sometimes, especially when they're losing. I say this as a proud Canadian. 😂

Soviet crushed Canada the first couple of games in 72'. The series change with Canada playing really dirty and got away with it. Even in 87' (best games ever in the history of hockey) there were some questionable calls. For example a tripping on the last deciding goal.

I will make one addition to your comment (as a Russian). Top Soviet players weren't technically conscripted only into the army (CSKA was the sports division of the Soviet Union Armed Forces), but also into the police/militia (Dynamo Moscow was affilated by the Soviet Union Militia).

With all due respect, in 72, Bobby Clarke committed, what us Canadian fans conveniently overlook, arguably one if the dirtiest plays in elite sport when he broke Kharlamovs ankle. The Flyers used the same tactics in 76. The Russians most likely would have won with Kharlamov, possibly the best player on Earth at the time, in the last 3 games. Canada/Russias greatest games were Canada Cup 87. Every game ended 6-5, and there was no BS on ice violence to decide it

Great point. I wanted to touch on the final game after but I also wanted to keep the focus on the gravity on this one. For them to not let the pressure of doing all of that and then falling short get to them… is just as impressive as this very win.

​@@hockeypsychology Summit series! and the Canada cup sorry boys...

​@@shoebetyaYou still think you won the summit series 😅😅😅 get real...

@@mikepagliaro2123 And you still think nobody beat the Russians before this 80s! How many times did the USA win the Canada cup? You know the tournament conceived to decide who was the best regarded of amateur status!

Let’s not forget, USA had to beat FINLAND for the GOLD. FINLAND was amazing hockey team. Team USA just became that good in basically 6 months of playing together. Brooks was a genius.

No… it’s the best. Nothing competes at a global scale. Geopolitics chess move by the Soviet’s that backfired and the world rejoiced. No championship in any sport has the clout of this moment in sports. The NHLs best from multiple countries could not beat these guys in a series and a bunch of college kids, some who never went on the play pro, beat the best team in the world that had not lost a gold medal in 20 years of Olympic play. Their goaltender Vladimir tretiak career GAA was 1.78. I know tretiak, he coached my brother in the early 90s. Nothing compares to this moment in time and the game that they happened to be playing was hockey. No disrespect to any other sport, but this will never happen again. Brooks would not even allow interviews. Never happens again.

no its not even close it wasnt even a best on best competition ... kazakhstan beating canad ais bigger then this yet nobody talks about it cause they didnt win gold its one game gold medal or not its the same its a win

These guys were not even the best players in college. Ramsey never played a single game at the U for the gophers until halfway through his senior year. I know him and we have talked about all sorts of undocumented moments leading to the selection of the USA HOCKEY team. At the end of the Gopher season, Ramsey gets told by brooks to tryout for the team USA. Ramsey laughed… Ramsey followed brooks agenda and that’s why he was picked. He was no where near ready to play any hockey beyond college, but Brooks awarded him with a moment and he took it.

@@GET2222 This is why I love youtube. My peewee team mate went on to become a celebrated NHL star in the goal. We were 13 when this game happened, playing Bantam hockey on two different teams then. We were all greatly affected and inspired by this game. I think Mike was, too, and he went on to play two Olympiads, ironically losing to the Canadians in the finals.

@@GET2222 Keeping in mind that he did play 1070 games in the NHL after winning the gold....thinking he was ready. Good call by Brooks

​@@GET2222Ramsey was only 19 y.o. at the time, I thought. He did well as a pro.

GET2222, By the end of the Frozen Four Ramsey was named to the NCAA All Tourney Team and was immediately after named to the USA World Tourney Team that included half the 1980 US Olympic Team and NHL Players. Further he was going to be a 1st Round pick in the draft. He had a strong resume before Colorado Springs.

Hey Arch, Mark Johnson was part of the cadre of USA players born between 1955-58 that were actually better players than from USSR Myshkin, Pervukhin, Bilayaletidinov, Starikov, Fetisov, and Malaria were only players born in those years on 1980 USSR squad. There were 4 more players including Drodzdetsky added from that age group to the 1984 team. If you were to form a 1980 US Olympic Team from both pro and NCAA you would have had G- Baker - Craig D - Langway - Larson O'Connell - Morrow C - Howe - Johnson - Pavelich W - Fidler - Rowe - Holmgren- Jensen- Mullen - Miller - Gorence Christoff That group were all NCAA aged for the 1976-77 NCAA season which was when Johnson won his NCAA Title. Czechoslovakia only had Peter Stastny born between 1955-58 on the 1980 Czechoslovakia Olympic Team. Sweden had some very good forwards born between 1955-58 like Kent Nilsson, Thomas Gradin and Bent Ake Gustaffson but not much on D or in net. Beginning with the '55 birth years the US started producing talent better than everyone but Canada. What do you think about that!

MYSHKIN SHUTOUT The NHL All Star team, one year earlier in the DECIDING GAME of The Challenge Cup. Maybe if Myshkin started the USA Game the US losses?

​@@KMK7355maybe you don't know what you're talking about

He held the full tryout, but he knew the team he wanted on the first day. Brooks consulted on set on the film. I was there. I worked on the film.

GET 2222, Injuries happen and could have happened to anyone Brooks had planned to name in The US Olympic Festival. It happened to Ralph Cox later. He had a keg injury before the Olympics and it cost him a spot which went to Mark Wells.

Mike Eruzione was “the shot heard around the world” Unbelievable.

Yes its a moment I'll never forget. Great memories back then.

Thanks for watching!

All but one or two had exemplary careers, hockey or not, after the Miracle on Ice, which is astonishing itself.

The greatest call in history

@@hockeypsychology nah that’s howie rose with the “Matteau! Matteau! Matteau! Stephane Matteau! And the rangers have one more hill to climb baby!” That’s the one.

@@whitegd4100 You SHOULD listen to Rick Jeanerette! He has some WONDERFUL calls too!

@@hockeypsychology also you balled out on this video. Good job man keep it up thanks for all you do for the community.

Yes same with me it inspired me to start playing hockey as a kid.

It remains to this day the most recent occasion in which the USA men's hockey team won gold at the Olympics.

It might seem to some that all the talk about the USA being in a funk, and that this was the beginning of the country turning the corner toward brighter days is overblown, but I remember that time vividly, and it really was like that. I had seen NHL games from time to time on Sunday afternoons, but nothing like this. Made me a puck fan for life. I even took up the game in my 20's when I could afford to play it. I was never very good, but it's the most fun game I have ever played. USA...USA...USA!

There was no Semifinal or Final Game. The top 2 teams bought the points against the other pool opponent into the final 2 games. So the USSR wasn't eliminated after losing to USA.

not even close is the whol world american stfu the majority hates u by deafult your statement is false

I couldn’t imagine the betting odds on a game like this

@@hockeypsychologyhi

The 1960 squad skated 8 players were from Minnesota, 6 from Mass, 2 from Michigan and one from Conn. The 1980 team had 12 from Minn (9 from U of MN had played for Brooks), 4 Mass, 2 Wisco, and 2 from Mich. Since you mention the Roger and Billy Christian, brothers from the 1960 team, Roger led the 1960 team in goals with 7, plus 2 assists, while Billy lead the team in assists with 7, plus 2 goals. Billy's son Dave Christian played on the 1980 team and lead that team in assists with 8. Billy's grandson (Dave's nephew), is Brock Nelson who plays for the Islanders. The Christian family hails from Warroad MN, a town of 1800 people, that has produced 5 NHL players, 7 Olympians, and over 85 division 1 college players.

Had players not turned pro early the # of Minnesotans would have been reduced to 7 (Ramsey, Pavelich, Broten, Christian Christoff, McClanahan, and Strobel) Massachusetts players increased to 8 (Baker, Craig, Langway, Dunn, O'Callahan, Silk, Cox, Nilan). People forget Cox had an ankle injury that compromised his skating and cost him his spot. He was a better player than Schneider, Eruzione, and Harrington. In fact that injury hurt him his entire career. Michigan would have had 3 players (Morrow, Roberts, McDougal), New York(Mullen) and Wisconsin (Johnson) one each. So in hindsight, talent wise no Craig in net, Baker and Eggs I one or another words no Gold Medal...lol.

back then it was worse u must be a racist to think it was better in the past only for white men

america better in the past ???? only for white males dude take off your tinted glasses .. america was 10x worse for any minority 40 years ago i geuss only white males matter

We had no Chinese Communist controlled social media back then. Now it's Divide & conquer I'm not talking about Chinese people, but the Communists that also control & destroy their lives Suddenly everyone else's opinion about our culture and country seem to matter? Why? Don't fall for it. It's a setup. I worked in both law and social services 70s 80s 90s- I figured out the system, quit my job, went to politicians and the media... They already knew. This is why sports waa special-free of politics Go back and watch the footage of Jesse Owens pissing off Adolf Hitler. Maybe that'll make you feel better Oh and by the way, you're not a a racist by anything you've said in your comment Don't cower at these fools who replied. That's what they want-just like liberals & Communist bullies

@jasonanderson5034 okay, that's enough. You throw around that racist word to shut people down? That's a cheap shot cop -out. You sound like you're the closed-minded one. Or simply a parrot for the mainstream media and the indoctrination of your propaganda education! Oh I've got something to say about your comment, and I've got a microphone Why don't you tell us what it was 50 years ago, if you were there. I was there. I remember. And I would just love you to try to guess my family's skin colorS I grew up playing street hockey with people of all places, my neighborhood covered five continents, street hockey brought us together And you know who did not want to play street hockey with us? The black neighbors, they just didn't want to. We played baseball, basketball, dodgeball, ring & run our neighbors Saturday nights with them, went trick-or-treating together - they had no interest in hockey. Zero You think maybe they were the racists? Haha! 50 years later it's very clear that those who point fingers calling others racists? Are the racists. Have you ever heard of black-on-black poverty? Blaming racism is classic for getting away with corruption within your own culture Obama could tell you something about it, he would be a nice community leader with direct ties to Chicago housing corruption. He is the definition of black-on-black poverty. That's what lawyers do, commit crimes and immediately blame someone else. My sister does it for a living. Standard operating procedure. There were plenty of federal grants for community leaders like Obama to be building ice arenas in Chicago. But somehow there were hundreds of thousands of dollars missing from a fund to fix Chicago subsidized housing and Obama ended up in a beautiful home that was far beyond his financial means? 🤔 But let's take a look at the origins of racist hockey. In the USA, Hockey started out in the northern states along the Canadian border. Because it came out of Canada. In Europe it started in cold places, not on the Mediterranean... It was played on ICE. I'll educate you on how ice might be racist cuz it chooses not to live in certain areas of the country😮 Ice requires a certain climate. ❄️ It has to be cold under 0° Celsius or 32° Fahrenheit 🥶 Do you know that the USA didn't have air-conditioning until the 1950s? And that's the only reason why Texas got settled! Huge population boom in Texas when air conditioning came in! Didya know that? So how long do you think it would take to be able to develop the technology, afford to put ice hockey arenas in the South where it's hot? And how many hockey teams does Texas have now? Tell Austin Matthews he's a racist, he should be playing on a Texas team because he's half Mexican. He doesn't belong in Toronto with white people! He's from the southwest - what the hell is he doing up there? Even the indoor rinks in the 1960s 70s & 80s in the northeast, had to keep the doors OPEN in the winter or the ice would melt from the body heat inside. You're going to call mother nature a racist because she did not provide African Americans & Mexicans in the South with ice sufficient enough to develop a hockey culture? So because they didn't have a hockey culture we're supposed to just throw ours away? African Americans settled in the South, Mexicans were already there some of them came up north to the urban cities-but real hockey started out in our backyards on ponds. The fire department used to flood fields... Inner city had basketball courts because they have pavement and the North country has dirt and water! And the fire departments would open up hydrants in the summer so the kids could cool off So we both had fire hydrants opened-are the fire hydrants racist? I have a multiracial family and I'm here to tell you to knock it off. 😃 You accuse someone of being a racist? In hockey? You're not a hockey fan. What nationality is Al Montoya? I can tell you just by his last name because I speak a few languages and I've traveled lots of places - does that make me racist that I know he's Cuban? This was the first professional team sport ever in the history of the world that we know of, where players from different countries speaking different languages played on the same line and team. Now we're supposed to give reparations to black people because mother nature didn't make ice in the South so they couldn't play hockey? It seems to me that forcing other cultures to play a white man's sport would be racist? Hockey was the one sport that crossed those boundaries- that's why we were the poor man's sport, blue-collar worker- lowest revenue of all professional sports. BY FAR! We're up to over 6 different languages on one team? You never saw that in any other sport. But now we've got wannabe fake fans who don't know the game, going on social media, not watching the sport. Turning sports into their soap opera? You want to go after the NBA and NFL maybe MLB? You might have a leg to stand on But not hockey. Everybody bleeds red, we don't care who you are, where you come from, you produce or get the hell off the ice. That's hockey You're playing political broomball. Which is what I run into in the liberal Northeast and lower leagues where racism is going on... in liberal areas Little League Do you even know how to lace up? Tape your blade? Hockey isn't for everyone... So maybe it'd be best that you not hang out with a bunch of racists. 👋

Yes I totally agree with you we aren't a United State anymore sadly. This brings me back to a better time, it wasn't a perfect time for sure but things were different and people themselves were different. Its hard to describe unless you actually lived through it.

people wont admit it but the soviet league was better then the nhl for a brief period they also only had like 7 teams tho soviet teams from their league not the national team won like 40 games outta 50 vs nhl teams

Soviets essentially hot housed their talent in a smaller league. That makes a difference for familiarity. Hot house the top 23 Canadian NHL players for 1979-80 they would beat the Soviets. In fact if you formed an NHL Team of just USA Players including 5 forwards from the 1980 OHT and 2 Dmen and Craig from the USOHT, they could be competitive against the 1980 Soviets (competitive meaning they could win 2 games in a 7 game series. Consider this 1980 USA Team. G - Baker - Craig - Lopresti D - Larson - Langway Morrow - Roberts O'Connell - Milbury Dunn - Ramsey C - Howe - Ftorek - Pavelich - Broten LW - Jensen - Fidler - Johnson Mullen - B. Miller RW - Talafous - Holmgren - Rowe Christoff That team given just 4 months together wouldn't be swept in a seven game series against the Soviets. Watch the 1981 Canada Cup US Soviets game. By no means was US embarrasec. Lost 4-1 but UT was a fairly even game possession wise. Let that US Team stay together 4 months and they are better.

Fetisov was 21, Kasatonov 20 and Starikov 21. I doubt VERY MUCH Fetisov was telling Tretiak, Vasiliev Mikhialov or Kharlamov what to look out for...lol The USSR D Corp was shockingly young. In fact Starikov lost the puck in his skates on the 3-3 goal.

@@KMK7355 He did. Just like your laughing at Fetisov now they probably did also. They are the best in the world. Nobody needs to tell us anything. We'll guess what happened. Laugh at those pros you just mentioned on the Soviet team cause they got humbled. You just made Fetisovs story more legitimate. Why believe a 21 year old kid.

Fetisov was a 21 year old kid. There is a pecking order on all teams and if you think Fetisov was pulling rank on a guy like Vasiliev you need your head examined.

@@KMK7355 I don't believe he pulled rank. I believe when he told his story he gave his input after that exhibition in MSG. I don't need my head examined. When your full of yourself and your the best in the world you think you can't learn nothing new. You become oblivious. Fetisov saw something that day in the USA and in my opinion Kasatanov sided with the Superstars and maybe even laughed at Fetisov...who knows? The coach of the Soviet team was known to be a strict Disciplined coach who took nothing for granted so it's surprising the Soviets weren't at least aware since the coach wasn't like that. They probably did get drunk the night before without the coach knowing it.

The Soviets were overconfident playing inferior opponents and it cost them with sloppy play like that goal Tretiak coughed up.