Fans, writers, and hockey professionals explain how Herb Brooks’s coaching style helped team USA win the 1980 Olympic gold medal for ice hockey. After winning the February 22nd Miracle on Ice game against the Soviet Union, the U.S. went on to win the gold medal game against Finland two days later.
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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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