[RayChuang88]

It is one of the greatest upsets in sports history because it was essentially college players going on a roll and beating what was essentially a team of NHL-quality players--even more impressive is the fact it was done using international IIHF rules, which American players are not used to.

[Alberta's Child]

Interestingly, Mike Eruzione has said years later that in retrospect it wasn’t as big an upset as it seemed to be at the time. Hockey was pretty much an unknown sport at the time in most of the U.S., so a lot of those college players were completely off the radar screen even for many NHL teams. But looking back 35 years later and seeing how many of those U.S. players had successful NHL careers changes the perspective a bit.