George McPhee, a former NHL player and currently the general manager of the Washington Capitals, remembers watching his friends on the Olympic team and describes the impact the Miracle on Ice has had on American hockey. McPhee was on the ice as a college skater when the results of the game were announced. “Boy, you just got chills,” he recalls.
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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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