Journalist Gerald Eskenazi got to know Herb Brooks well while covering the team, and he recalls their interactions. Eskenazi remembers how difficult it was to read Brooks, as well as Brooks's goals for the team. "He was putting together an American collective," Eskenazi says.
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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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