Dan Brooks, the son of Herb Brooks, recalls attending the hockey games at the 1980 Olympics, starting with the opening game against the Swedes and building up to the Miracle game. “Each day that passed in Lake Placid you could feel something building. Something was happening.”
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The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22. The United States national team, made up of amateur and collegiate players and led by coach Herb Brooks, defeated the Soviet Union national team, which had won the gold medal in six of the seven previous Olympic games.
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