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Posted on 02/19/2026 1:01:06 PM PST by cowboyusa
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Pretty slick move.
It’s okay. I was teasing a bit.
Sounds like a good game. I look forward to watching.
Really enjoyed the men’s game vs. Czech the other day.
The 1972 US Men’s Basketball Team, still haven’t gotten their Silver Medals to protest the call in the Gold Medal Game against the Soviets.
Right through the Five-Hole!
Without the Russians the Gold Medal will be an asterisk.
HOW MANY MEN WERE ON THE TEAM?
CANADA IS OUR HAT.
The Olympics.
Internet has everything to do with it no matter how you imagine that it doesn’t.
We come in with a very gold or bust mentality. Which isn’t really deserved, especially when Russia is there too, we’re rarely definitely the best team, but generally top 5.
It’s too bad.
Everything the left touches (infects) eventually becomes contaminated, diseased, rotted and no longer worthy of anyone’s time or attention.
The fun of The Olympics was beating the Commies.
Well we just beat Canada so…
Good point.
I think the U.S. “good or bust” mentality can be directly tied to the introduction of NHL players to the Olympics.
That’s what made the 80’s gold medal for the US Men’s team so special.
Just a bunch of college kids that had not played together before and beating what was essentially Russia’s pro team that had been assembled and playing along side each other for years.
A month before the Olympics the Soviets beat that US team 10-3.
Must suck to be them.
I guess it’s technically true that the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team had “never played together before,” but only if “before” means they didn’t play together until they were on the U.S. Olympic team. Before the Olympics they had been playing together for eight months, and their rigorous schedule through the fall and early winter months included more than 60 games — the equivalent of almost two full NCAA hockey seasons in those days. By February of 1980 they were arguably one of the most cohesive and well-integrated teams ever to step on the ice in an international tournament.
And the “college players” angle is somewhat misleading. I believe few of those players still had any college eligibility left in 1980. Many of them finished their collegiate careers in 1978-79, and some of them were in their mid-20s and had been drafted by NHL teams as far back as 1974-75.
To me, the biggest appeal of the 1980 story was that it all happened unexpectedly, in a sport very few Americans followed closely before then, and in the last of the “small town” Winter Olympics.
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