re: 1980 USA Hockey vs. 2014 USA Hockey -- Olympics

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Who is your friend that played on that team ? eta: isn't virtually that whole team basically pushing their 60s now ?

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Posted by COTiger on 2/16 at 11:43 am to RedMustang Great story. Do you mind divulging your buddy's name? Understand if you don't. I saw some of the tryouts in 1979. You are right. Herbie was working their asses off in the tryouts.

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Sorry, I just saw your posts. He is Mike Ramsey, a defenseman on that team. He's a great guy, very down to earth. I played a lot of softball with him as he'd play in the off season. He played hockey for the Sabres back then, but would come back to Minnesota for the summers. He's 53 years old.
He once told me he had some of his equipment from the Olympics, pads, gloves, etc. sitting in the garage. They had a rummage sale and he put the stuff up for sale for a few bucks. Someone got a nice piece of history very cheap!