[yooper]

"If I would have played the second and third periods of that game," Tretiak said the other day, "maybe the USA wouldn't have had that miracle."

If if's and but's were wishes and nuts we'd all have a merry friggin' Christmas.

The greatest sporting win in the history of the US was all it was. It was the opening salvo in Reagan's triumph over the Soviet Union, the first victory of the Reagan era cold war. It was the catalyst that freed us from the malaise of the Carter years, and I'm convinced that without it the rest of the fall of the Soviet empire would not have happened. It showed the world that the Soviet Red Army team was not infallible, nor was communism.

We all owe Herb Brooks and his boys an immense debt of gratitude.......

[loftyheights]

"The greatest sporting win in the history of the US..."
I would submit that the victory over the USSR by the 1980 US Olympic Hockey team was the greatest moment in the history of sports! I interviewed Dave Christian(from the family who makes Christian Brothers hockey sticks in Warroad, MN) after the Winnipeg Jets played the St. Louis Blues, the first year he turned pro. He played center at the University of North Dakota in college. What few people know is that Coach Brooks asked him to play defense for the olympic team. Of course, he agreed and excelled! What a man! Each and every one of the players for the US came together and accomplished something that may never be accomplished again! I get goose bumps as I write this! "Do you believe in miracles?!"

[Heatseeker]

We all owe Herb Brooks and his boys an immense debt of gratitude.......

Indeed we do. In a sense, the Reagan Revolution began that night in Lake Placid.

[jjmcgo]

The Reagan era didn't begin for another 11 months. USA won gold 2/22/80, Reagan was elected in November 1980 and took office Jan. 20, 1981.