Apparently Hurb brooks said allot of questionable things that they weren’t allowed to put, apparently he told them in the last game if you lose this game, you can take it to your fucking grave, if that’s true I understand why they couldn’t put that lol
PLAY YOUR GAME. PLAY YOUR GAME. God, Russell was great in this. That pre-game speech ("You were born to be hockey players. This is YOUR day") brings tears to my eyes. Terrific movie.
Billy Smith said the 4 time champ Isle would have played them in Moscow for a million dollars winner take all (big money at the time) and kicked their ass.
@@81way The NHL All Stars got clobbered. There's something for a team unit to take them on, that's a huge part of this film, but no way they would have "kicked their ass". Maybe win a couple out of ten, sure that's possible. Also, Moscow did have a million dollars hard currency so maybe the Islanders should have done it more for pride.
“You don’t defend them, YOU ATTACK THEM. You take their game and SHOVE it back in their faces” I love that line. I played sports all of my life and I always came back to that line when the odds were against my team.
Brooks was very well informed, and he realized how revolutionary the Soviet style of play was that he knew he had to learn it and teach it to his team or else they would not be able to keep pace....and he had to condition the hell out of his boys, and then some, because what he didn't have in experience, he had in fresh legs and he had those crazy young believers who had nothing to lose...and would have open minds to doing something new in order to achieve the "impossible" in beating Big Red.
Love how he looks at Craig when he describes how airtight Tretiak is....almost challenging him saying, Look, we're going to be lucky to get 3 or 4 goals past this guy, so you gotta be exceptional, you've gotta play out of your mind. Craig was always that guy in the background that was alongside Brooks on this mad quest....moreso than any of the other players.
@@KS-xk2so Tikhonov wasn't the ideal coach. He was a political appointee. In the interviews, Tretiak says he was pulled because the coach thought he wasn't playing his best. It was probably rather a punishment for allowing two goals. The first he was somewhat blinded on and the second was definitely a surprise attack.
@@joelwillems4081 Yeah, and I'll still take Tretiak at "not his best" over any other goalie in the game at the time. It was definitely a punishment, and hey it only cost them the game and their unbroken dynasty lol
I remember the Red Army team played at the big, bad Montreal Canadiens in '76, when the Canadiens only lost 8 regular season games that season out of 80. The Canadiens had like 7 or 8 HoFers on that team. The Canadiens dominated the game, outshooting the "Red Army team" 39-13, but the score ended 3-3. The broadcasters were stunned. One of them commented that Tretiak was the only reason why that happened. He dominated international hockey for a long time.
He was absolutely right. The USA team attacked them from the get-go, and the Soviets didn't expect that. It would have only worked once, before they adjusted to someone approaching them that way, but they only needed it to work once. They'd killed the US in an exhibition before the Olympics, where the US team didn't show its hand, and they never expected Brooks to face them in the Olympics and try to beat them at their own game. Sometimes audacity pays off...
John the USSR dominated puck possession in that game and outshot the US 36-16. Craig won the game with good goal tending and the USSR lost it with awful goaltending.
The biggest difference between the Soviets and the USA team was heart. The USA team was young, and full of HEART! I watched the game when I was 9 years old. I lived in Oklahoma, no where near any hockey rinks, but seeing Jim Craig and this team play their guts out and beat the Soviets made me want to play hockey SO BAD!!! I remember I could not read enough articles about the the USA team and players. Easily the biggest sports win in my life time.
Bob the 84,88 and 92 teams worked hard and prepared. The '88 team didn't get the goaltending they needed. That team was good enough offensively to beat both the USSR and CSSR. Go on TH-cam and watch the games.
In HS our X-country team had been turrible for years. Our new coach my sophomore year applied the same methods and mentality training us. Our workouts were not pleasant and we were told we could not win with average performances. We went undefeated in league meets and came in 4th in State.
As embarrassed as I was that Jimmy Carter was our President, I was unbelievably PROUD our the U.S. Hockey Team! Herb Brooks pulled off the most stunning victory ever in the World of Sports! They made everyone in our Country PROUD to be Americans!
The whole world is afraid of them..Boys we won't be! No one has ever worked hard enough to skate with the Soviets for an entire game..Gentlemen...We are going to work hard enough!!
He (the actor who played OC) actually committed suicide :( Truly sad. The actor who played Ramsey passed away years back too. He was killed in a car wreck.
I guess Herb's words were too effective since the names on the backs aren't that well known or well remembered. Hardly anyone even knows who the names of those USA players. Everyone remembers the game, but no one remembers the individual players. I feel sorry for those players. I wonder what became of their lives after their hockey playing days were over. Herb was basically telling them that they are individuals don't matter. I wonder if they made their lives worse after they were done playing professional hockey.
First of all the NHL teams had no interest in playing the Soviets it was during the season and they did want to risk injury or tire themselves for the NHL season. Second of all the Flyers not only beat them but just about made the Russians "cry" with their "rough and tumble" tactics. They could not contend with that type of physical play. Third it was said by NHL experts that the Russians would be barely a .500 team playing the 80 NHL regular season with smaller and narrow rinks limiting their speed advantage and more physical NHL play. They were a great open ice team but the ice in the NHL especially back then was NOT so wide open and you paid with physical body checks.
They lost only against Flyers, but destroyed other teams. Also they won against NHL all star team. And they played very close games against camadian team in 1987. Games went 7-6 6-7 6-7. Very close games on small rink. They could play against canada and win.
Anyone who brags about that Flyers win is pretty sad. There's rough and tumble, and then there is outright malicious assault. Might as well have just hit Kharlamov over the head with a bat as he was walking into the rink. The fact that then no penalty was called is an embarrassment to the NHL, and the game itself.
If you had a 8 game total goal series between the 74\75 Flyers split with 4 in Philly and 4 in Moscow, with IIHF refs in Moscow no doubt the USSR FUCKING BURIES THE FLYERS.
Truth is that Russian ream would have been a second division team in a 78 game NHL season. They play a wide european rinks where they could flow free,back then the NHL let you play physical and the Russian team could not deal with that day in/day out. They beat the NHL teams because the NHLer's took it as an a game they were not interested in playing. When they played the physical Flyers they got beat up and threatened to leave the ice. They were not a good NHL caliber team.
When they played the Flyers a goon intentionally went out early in the game, and viciously elbowed the Russians best player in the head. Completely knocked him cold. The ref didn't call anything. I'd consider bailing on the game too if it was made clear a bunch of goons could permanently injure me, and it would be completely ignored.
This game was a fluke in my opinion, but of course this really changed the American ideology of Spirit, and how Communism affected us all. Beautiful movie, infact I got to meet Phil Verchota and he's am awesome guy.
Thukamaloo I completely disagree in that it was a fluke, I believe an ESPN 30 for 30 has interviewed most of that Russian team. They were stunned in how the American kids were able to skate with them. But the biggest factor was that the coach panicked and took out Trejtijak. Most of the players were thrown off right then and there at the start of the 2nd period.
Soviet coach leaves in arguably one of the top 3 goalies in the history of the game, Soviets win. The only coaching mistake that is close to this level is Crawford leaving Gretzky on the bench in the shootout.
It may have been in the sense that a loss was that the Soviets needed. Just like de la sale rjj and fuckin batman "Victory has defeated you"... The 30 for 30 addressed it as well
Fluke? Far from it. Herb knee how to push every button on his selection of players. He knew how hard he could push each one of them and he broke them down and built them back up. The 30 for 30 on ESPN that covered the Soviet side of this game, the players admitted that they were shocked after the shellacking USA took a week before that they were out there skating the way they were. We were so we'll conditioned that as the 3rd period goes on, especially the last 3 to 4 minutes, you can see the Soviets were gradually slowing down and the Americans were wearing them down. That never happens. The team that never quit won that game and that, besides the obvious outcome as the reason, was us because of what we did in the end of the first. One last desperation dump in, a careless deflection by Tretiak thinking the period was over and the Americans wouldnt make any attempt and Johnson scoring because the Soviet defense got caught with their pants down and we tied it up. Complacency in the end of the 1st gave us life. Hardly a fluke the Americans outworked, outskated and outhustled the best team possibly in hockey history.
@@patrickmacasaet3493 yeah it was the Russian side of it and I believe it was mikalov who said he was completely shocked about their energy to start the game.
Should be a felony that Kurt Russell wasn't even nominated for an Academy Award for this role.
AMEN
NHL won’t change their game.... We will......Love that line
Apparently Hurb brooks said allot of questionable things that they weren’t allowed to put, apparently he told them in the last game if you lose this game, you can take it to your fucking grave, if that’s true I understand why they couldn’t put that lol
Chris Begetis Would’ve gone from a PG to a PG-13 by MPA standards on that word alone especially in a Disney film.
Daniel Moorefield yep
Great line but VERY WRONG historically speaking, because the flyers did just that when they beat them..... Watch the documentary BROAD STREET BULLIES
PLAY YOUR GAME. PLAY YOUR GAME. God, Russell was great in this. That pre-game speech ("You were born to be hockey players. This is YOUR day") brings tears to my eyes. Terrific movie.
One name that still haunts shooters and inspires many goaltenders...Vladislav Tretiak. One of the best tendies ever
Billy Smith said the 4 time champ Isle would have played them in Moscow for a million dollars winner take all (big money at the time) and kicked their ass.
81way who would beat who?
@@81way Billy Smith might've been able to take on the Russian Olympic diving team head to head, but thats probably about it.
@@81way The NHL All Stars got clobbered. There's something for a team unit to take them on, that's a huge part of this film, but no way they would have "kicked their ass". Maybe win a couple out of ten, sure that's possible. Also, Moscow did have a million dollars hard currency so maybe the Islanders should have done it more for pride.
A lot NHL goalies wear #20 in honor of Tretiak.
“You don’t defend them, YOU ATTACK THEM. You take their game and SHOVE it back in their faces”
I love that line. I played sports all of my life and I always came back to that line when the odds were against my team.
“Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.”
Sun Tzu
"Gentlemen, we ARE going to work hard enough" Love that line.
Absolutely!
"When battle is joined it will be in a time and place of your choosing" - Sun Tzu
Studying your opponent's style and exploiting their weaknesses is very smart
Scouting Reports.
Brooks was very well informed, and he realized how revolutionary the Soviet style of play was that he knew he had to learn it and teach it to his team or else they would not be able to keep pace....and he had to condition the hell out of his boys, and then some, because what he didn't have in experience, he had in fresh legs and he had those crazy young believers who had nothing to lose...and would have open minds to doing something new in order to achieve the "impossible" in beating Big Red.
Read Art of War, this is pretty much a page out of the book.
@@grantdavis6363 i came here to say The Art of War also !! 😎🙏🔥💞💫💖👊🏼
Love how he looks at Craig when he describes how airtight Tretiak is....almost challenging him saying, Look, we're going to be lucky to get 3 or 4 goals past this guy, so you gotta be exceptional, you've gotta play out of your mind. Craig was always that guy in the background that was alongside Brooks on this mad quest....moreso than any of the other players.
Russell's son was a D 1 college goalie.
What do you mean : "Craig was always that guy in the background that was alongside Brooks on this mad quest"? Thanks
Tikhonov pulling Tretiak after the second goal is one of the biggest mistakes a coach has ever made in the history of the game.
@@KS-xk2so Tikhonov wasn't the ideal coach. He was a political appointee. In the interviews, Tretiak says he was pulled because the coach thought he wasn't playing his best. It was probably rather a punishment for allowing two goals. The first he was somewhat blinded on and the second was definitely a surprise attack.
@@joelwillems4081 Yeah, and I'll still take Tretiak at "not his best" over any other goalie in the game at the time. It was definitely a punishment, and hey it only cost them the game and their unbroken dynasty lol
Kurt Russell deserved an Oscar for this role
Most underrated scene in the movie
Their all underrated lol
Underrated hockey movie
Indeed; the moment that Herb said, “That’s all, gentlemen,” the gold medal was theirs for the taking
... This is the best scene in the movie, really. The purpose and the direction of the team and the head coach isn't really defined until this moment.
I remember the Red Army team played at the big, bad Montreal Canadiens in '76, when the Canadiens only lost 8 regular season games that season out of 80. The Canadiens had like 7 or 8 HoFers on that team. The Canadiens dominated the game, outshooting the "Red Army team" 39-13, but the score ended 3-3. The broadcasters were stunned. One of them commented that Tretiak was the only reason why that happened. He dominated international hockey for a long time.
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Soviets 4-1 in 1976, literally knocking them right off the ice.
"Gentlemen, we are going to work hard enough."- gives me chills everytime!
It is true what Brooks said in the beginning of this movie. “All star teams fail because they rely solely on the individual’s players talent.”
He was absolutely right. The USA team attacked them from the get-go, and the Soviets didn't expect that. It would have only worked once, before they adjusted to someone approaching them that way, but they only needed it to work once. They'd killed the US in an exhibition before the Olympics, where the US team didn't show its hand, and they never expected Brooks to face them in the Olympics and try to beat them at their own game.
Sometimes audacity pays off...
John the USSR dominated puck possession in that game and outshot the US 36-16. Craig won
the game with good goal tending and the USSR lost it with awful
goaltending.
@@KMK7355 Helps when the opposing coach sits his starter down like an idiot.
K S
Mishkyn had beaten the NHL All Stars in the rubber match in the 1979 Challenge Cup so he had
won in a high stakes game against a much better team.
This would have been a great movie if it WASN'T a true story. The fact it is a true story?... TEARS!!
Awesome film footage of the CCCP team practicing... Great scene, great movie, great story, and a great coach that Herb Brooks was...
This is truly the definition of a miracle but this is also what makes sports so great ordinary people can do extraordinary things
They clearly weren't "ordinary hockey players".
Many would go on to stellar NHL careers.
Soviet players put their pants on one leg at a time to.
The biggest difference between the Soviets and the USA team was heart. The USA team was young, and full of HEART! I watched the game when I was 9 years old. I lived in Oklahoma, no where near any hockey rinks, but seeing Jim Craig and this team play their guts out and beat the Soviets made me want to play hockey SO BAD!!! I remember I could not read enough articles about the the USA team and players. Easily the biggest sports win in my life time.
oh man oh man.
'Gentlemen, we are gonna work hard enough.'
The beginning of every great sports movie from Invincible to Revenge of the Nerds.
This and Duke’s training plan in ‘Rocky Balboa’: two of the best ‘we’re-underdogs-but-I-have-a-plan-to-win’ speeches in cinema.
1:43 You don’t defend them, you attack them! You take there game and you shove it right back in there face! NHL won’t change there game.
Work long and hard enough during Olympic Preparation. That's what the USA ( Men's ) Program lacks these Days!
Bob the 84,88 and 92 teams worked hard and prepared. The
'88 team didn't get the goaltending they needed. That team was good enough offensively to beat both
the USSR and CSSR. Go on TH-cam and watch the games.
“The legs feed the wolf, boys”
Sometimes the only way to run is right at them. Thanks for posting. I needed to see this today.
0:39, Tretiak. He moves there like some kind of giant insect. To be feared.
I actually find this speech even more moving than the one in the locker room. It’s before they had any real reason to believe.
It was a miracle that you won guys ...no Gretzky, and you won 🏆
We are going to work hard enough!
honestly such a great movie!!!!
In HS our X-country team had been turrible for years. Our new coach my sophomore year applied the same methods and mentality training us. Our workouts were not pleasant and we were told we could not win with average performances. We went undefeated in league meets and came in 4th in State.
@NBCeeUs! how do you know we didn’t beat the Soviets?
As embarrassed as I was that Jimmy Carter was our President, I was unbelievably PROUD our the U.S. Hockey Team! Herb Brooks pulled off the most stunning victory ever in the World of Sports! They made everyone in our Country PROUD to be Americans!
The whole world is afraid of them..Boys we won't be! No one has ever worked hard enough to skate with the Soviets for an entire game..Gentlemen...We are going to work hard enough!!
Amazing what a solid game plan and a little luck can accomplish
Legs feed the wolf
Sad the guy that plays oc died while serving our country rip michael
He (the actor who played OC) actually committed suicide :( Truly sad.
The actor who played Ramsey passed away years back too. He was killed in a car wreck.
“They’re Russians, they get shot if they smile” 🤣
This is how a USA Team should Train!
I LIKED IT GOD DAMNIT
**** YEAH. And that's how you beat the Soviets at their game :)
I remember when....
Amen
I guess Herb's words were too effective since the names on the backs aren't that well known or well remembered. Hardly anyone even knows who the names of those USA players. Everyone remembers the game, but no one remembers the individual players. I feel sorry for those players. I wonder what became of their lives after their hockey playing days were over. Herb was basically telling them that they are individuals don't matter. I wonder if they made their lives worse after they were done playing professional hockey.
No- if you watch the credits they all went on to successful careers and families
First of all the NHL teams had no interest in playing the Soviets it was during the season and they did want to risk injury or tire themselves for the NHL season. Second of all the Flyers not only beat them but just about made the Russians "cry" with their "rough and tumble" tactics. They could not contend with that type of physical play. Third it was said by NHL experts that the Russians would be barely a .500 team playing the 80 NHL regular season with smaller and narrow rinks limiting their speed advantage and more physical NHL play. They were a great open ice team but the ice in the NHL especially back then was NOT so wide open and you paid with physical body checks.
Imagine them playing in the old Boston garden against the big bad bruins.
Why learn a new style of play when you could just beat the crap out of them? Seems to have worked.
They lost only against Flyers, but destroyed other teams. Also they won against NHL all star team. And they played very close games against camadian team in 1987. Games went 7-6 6-7 6-7. Very close games on small rink. They could play against canada and win.
Anyone who brags about that Flyers win is pretty sad. There's rough and tumble, and then there is outright malicious assault. Might as well have just hit Kharlamov over the head with a bat as he was walking into the rink. The fact that then no penalty was called is an embarrassment to the NHL, and the game itself.
Where's the footage of them losing to the flyers? Walking off the ice like cowards. That'll inspire them.
If you had a 8 game total goal series between the 74\75 Flyers split with 4 in Philly and 4 in Moscow, with IIHF refs in Moscow no doubt the USSR FUCKING BURIES THE FLYERS.
Also, calling that game hockey might be a stretch... more like a legalized mugging.
Yeah, like someone who don't speak English as native language would have enough strength to focus on some English movie after 8 hours at work ;)
Lakes feed the wolbest line
KI LIKED IT
Joe Biden said he once played on that team.
What are you playing/fighting for?…
I speak fluent french.
Truth is that Russian ream would have been a second division team in a 78 game NHL season. They play a wide european rinks where they could flow free,back then the NHL let you play physical and the Russian team could not deal with that day in/day out. They beat the NHL teams because the NHLer's took it as an a game they were not interested in playing. When they played the physical Flyers they got beat up and threatened to leave the ice. They were not a good NHL caliber team.
When they played the Flyers a goon intentionally went out early in the game, and viciously elbowed the Russians best player in the head. Completely knocked him cold. The ref didn't call anything. I'd consider bailing on the game too if it was made clear a bunch of goons could permanently injure me, and it would be completely ignored.
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This game was a fluke in my opinion, but of course this really changed the American ideology of Spirit, and how Communism affected us all. Beautiful movie, infact I got to meet Phil Verchota and he's am awesome guy.
Thukamaloo I completely disagree in that it was a fluke, I believe an ESPN 30 for 30 has interviewed most of that Russian team. They were stunned in how the American kids were able to skate with them. But the biggest factor was that the coach panicked and took out Trejtijak. Most of the players were thrown off right then and there at the start of the 2nd period.
Soviet coach leaves in arguably one of the top 3 goalies in the history of the game, Soviets win. The only coaching mistake that is close to this level is Crawford leaving Gretzky on the bench in the shootout.
It may have been in the sense that a loss was that the Soviets needed.
Just like de la sale rjj and fuckin batman
"Victory has defeated you"...
The 30 for 30 addressed it as well
Fluke? Far from it.
Herb knee how to push every button on his selection of players.
He knew how hard he could push each one of them and he broke them down and built them back up.
The 30 for 30 on ESPN that covered the Soviet side of this game, the players admitted that they were shocked after the shellacking USA took a week before that they were out there skating the way they were.
We were so we'll conditioned that as the 3rd period goes on, especially the last 3 to 4 minutes, you can see the Soviets were gradually slowing down and the Americans were wearing them down.
That never happens.
The team that never quit won that game and that, besides the obvious outcome as the reason, was us because of what we did in the end of the first.
One last desperation dump in, a careless deflection by Tretiak thinking the period was over and the Americans wouldnt make any attempt and Johnson scoring because the Soviet defense got caught with their pants down and we tied it up.
Complacency in the end of the 1st gave us life.
Hardly a fluke the Americans outworked, outskated and outhustled the best team possibly in hockey history.
@@patrickmacasaet3493 yeah it was the Russian side of it and I believe it was mikalov who said he was completely shocked about their energy to start the game.