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re: 1980 USA Hockey Team - What made them successful?
Posted on 8/10/23 at 5:50 pm to TheWalrus
Posted on 8/10/23 at 5:50 pm to TheWalrus
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Russia threw the game for the mob
They were there to trade jeans.
Tretiak:
When we got home to the Soviet Union, people on the street asked us 'why did you lose? And to whom? Some students?'
What were you drunk or something, what happened?
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Posted on 8/10/23 at 5:54 pm to OU Guy
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Keep in mind this was during RR presidency
The 1980 election wasn't until later in the year. Carter was still in office when the Winter Olympics happened.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 5:55 pm to WaterLink
Beat me to it
Posted on 8/10/23 at 6:03 pm to DakIsNoLB
I don't know b/c I was only 10 at the time. Being from LA I didn't know much about hockey or its rules. But it was the greatest sporting event I ever watched to this day. I can remember being so nervous during that game and can still relive those feelings. I don't think I'll ever see anything like that again.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 6:10 pm to OU Guy
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Keep in mind this was during RR presidency and height of cold war of the 80’s.
RR was a candidate. He was elected that fall and took office in January 1981.
The upset was a much needed boost to national morale.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:43 pm to DakIsNoLB
The Soviet Union was hit by the flu. Their best players were playing sick. It's not that difficult to figure out.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:45 pm to VADawg
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This is the big one, IMO. We see hot goalies carry teams through NHL playoff runs every year.
Jim Craig never amounted to anything in the NHL. He got got "hot" for one game against a team that was sick.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:47 pm to therick711
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Oh, yeah, the other massive thing that I stupidly left out is that Tikhonov pulled Tretiak in the first freaking period. Massive mistake and colossal failure. Perhaps the biggest reason the US won that game.
Tritiak was pulled because he had a fever from the flu.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:49 pm to Ghost of Colby
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Throw some players in from Boston and Wisconsin, and Brooks built a single team from the best players from only the best four or five college teams in the country.
The team was based on college players from Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Michigan.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:50 pm to 91TIGER
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I don't know b/c I was only 10 at the time. Being from LA I didn't know much about hockey or its rules. But it was the greatest sporting event I ever watched to this day. I can remember being so nervous during that game and can still relive those feelings. I don't think I'll ever see anything like that again.
The game was shown on tape delay in the US. We all knew that the US won when it was broadcast.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:57 pm to OU Guy
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The game was shown on tape delay in the US. We all knew that the US won when it was broadcast.
How long was the delay? Remember, no internet then
This post was edited on 8/10/23 at 7:59 pm
Posted on 8/10/23 at 8:30 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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Jim Craig never amounted to anything in the NHL.
Neither did Ray LeBlanc. Doesn't take anything away from his accomplishments in the '92 Olympics.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 8:37 pm to DakIsNoLB
Home ice and luck.
The Soviets outshot us 39-16.
The Soviets outshot us 39-16.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 8:40 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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The game was shown on tape delay in the US
True
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We all knew that the US won when it was broadcast
Not true.
Very few people outside of Lake Placid and the news services knew. There was a news blackout and it wasn't reported on the national news broadcasts that evening.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 8:41 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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The game was shown on tape delay in the US. We all knew that the US won when it was broadcast.
This is false.
Relatively very few people knew the results before the game aired on a three hour tape delay. There was a spoiler broadcast locally in DC that spoiled some.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 8:42 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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The Soviet Union was hit by the flu. Their best players were playing sick. It's not that difficult to figure out.
You got a link reporting players being sick or just hypothesizing?
Posted on 8/10/23 at 8:49 pm to chalmetteowl
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How long was the delay? Remember, no internet then
It was announced that the USA beat the Soviet Union at the 6:30pm/5:30 ABC World News Tonight broadcast. The game was shown on tape delay at 7 Central and 8 Eastern on a Friday night.
CBS, NBC, AP, UPI, MBS, Reuters, and NPR and PBS all announced that the USA beat the Soviet Union before the broadcast.
This post was edited on 8/10/23 at 8:54 pm
Posted on 8/10/23 at 8:51 pm to KosmoCramer
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You got a link reporting players being sick or just hypothesizing?
It was well known that members of the Soviet Union was sick with influenza.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 8:53 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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It was well known that members of the Soviet Union was sick with influenza.
You got a link for that, mate?
Posted on 8/10/23 at 8:57 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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CBS, NBC, AP, UPI, MBS, Reuters, and NPR and PBS all announced that the USA beat the Soviet Union before the broadcast.
You got a link for that? I can only find mention of a few local broadcasts that spoiled the result.
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