Olympic Games 1980. USA - FINLAND (24.02.1980, Lake Placid, Final for 1st place)
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- Олимпийские Игры 1980. США - ФИНЛЯНДИЯ
24.02.1980, Lake Placid, Финал за 1е место
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To Coach Brooks and every player, coach and staff member: THANK YOU for bringing USA pride back
💯🇺🇸
You don't think the 1976 USA Olympic Basketball Team didn't have pride? That was a NCAA All Star Team and beat everyone after
the 1972 team was cheated.
“If you lose this game, you’re gonna take it to your fuckin’ grave.”
(stops, turns back toward his players)
“Your FUCKIN’ GRAVE!!!”
- USA coach Herb Brooks
Actually that was my high school tennis coach Dave Buckley of Mohawk (NY) High School between the 2nd and 3rd sets of the Central Valley Conference championship, senior year 1985.
And it worked.
@@jwfmsu1990 Glad it worked! Btw, and unrelated, with my being near Albany NY, I've always been sad about Greg Jarvis being on the Challenger the following year....
@@roberts5944 They named the high school building after him.
Now the district no longer exists as it merged with Ilion several years ago.
I think whoever decided to air commercials during action should take that to their graves! They missed 2 goals so far,
I love the 1980 tv commercials. I remember all of them!!
the Russians were smeared
USA is the best hockey country
Russia is shit
Slava=Glory to Ukraine!
USA and Ukraine!
To me The 1980 US Hockey team is the greatest sports moment of my lifetime,The greatest individual moment for an athlete happened at Lake Placid also, Eric Heiden’s 5 gold medals in 5 different events. Unbelievable Winter Olympics!!
Certainly, the biggest sport's upset off all time, eclipsing the Jets win over the Colts in Superbowl III. I've seen it compared to a medium size college's football team, say Valdosta State, in Valdosta GA, taking on and defeating today's Kansas City Chiefs.
Absolutely! about kids overcoming a professional team. It was awesome!
@@Gallagherfreak100 of all time in American sports history*
Those were the only great moments Eric and the hockey gold medal but to me that put this Olympics above all others winter or summer.
@@hristo5689 As a non-American, it's the best moment in sports history. It's by far the biggest underdog story ever and it had the greatest implications outside of the game. truly incredible.
1980, What a year in hockey, Gordie Howe 's final NHL season, Wayne Gretzky's rookie season, USA gold medal winners and the New York Islanders first of 4 consecutive Stanley Cup championships. Imagine what it must have been like for Ken Morrow, the Gold Medal to 4 Cups in a row !!! Whoa !!!
Ken Morrow won the gold and then switched to the Islanders and won the Stanley Cup in the same year
@@jamesfields2916 Yes the same year, what an incredible run for him.
He was a prototypical modern day
shutdown dman with very good passing ability and skating ability for a guy 6:04.
@@KMK7355 He'd score a few goals at important moments too.
@@michaelmohrle1773 won four consecutive Stanley Cups! He was the only player Brooks let have facial hair because he had it when he picked him.
As I watch this after all of these years, I still tear up and wish we had a moment like this now to lift up our great country’s spirits!
A lot of great NHL players were there
we wont see anything like it again in sports
Thomas you have to lift up your spirits on your own - bring joy to the world - tell them of the great things that have happened !
Thomas, what our scientists did in developing a vaccine for Covid-19
was infinitely greater than the US winning in 1980.
My daughter is a PT and worked during 2020 dealing with patients
with Covid-19 pre vax. She is way
more a hero than any athlete.
always loved how Herb left for the locker room at the medal round game wins, let the players enjoy their triumph
I got to play for Coach Brooks in 1970 at a Minnesoat hockey school. I was 11 years old. I just came off the ice from a shift. He yelled at me "You're in midseason form!" I thought at first he was mad at me!
I watched these games -- was age 17 -- and I remember being perplexed as to why Herb Brooks left to go back to the locker room, not do the same as Craig Patrick and stay to interact with and celebrate with the players. But when I became a coach myself and coached youth athletes, then I understood why. Plus, I am convinced Herb just stayed true and consistent with his approach from the beginning, with his team -- he wasn't their friend; he didn't allow his emotions to show unless he was pissed with them. When they won, those players didn't expect him to be any different and he needed a private celebration
@@ericjohnson1267 qq is
He said that he left to cry as well as we some
Definitely, a CLASS ACT🎯
RIP: Coach Brooks 🙏❤️
Can't believe that 41 year's have gone by from that GREAT DAY 😢 It's the 1st time that I've rewatched this 🙏My Dad surprised me with tickets about 2 months prior. It was a lottery system and had no idea who we would be watching, that is not until the Friday victory vs. The USSR. I was 22 y.o., one of my fondest memories, especially since it was with my Dad !! Also, was able to attend the Awards Ceremony later on. Will never forget Eruzione calling the entire team up to the Gold Medal Podium.
Then, out of nowhere, no PA Announcer or any type of band in charge... The crowd quieted down and a few, sounded like 10 or 20 people began singing "God Bless America", little by slow... before you knew it the entire place was belting it out in perfect unison !! I will Never, EVER forget that precious moment, a moment in which was my MOST grateful feeling of how PROUD I was to be an American... The hair's are standing up on my arms right now, just like that afternoon and tears are also sliding down my cheeks in the same way as they did on that PERFECT DAY 🥲👍🇺🇲🏒🎯❤️
I think that I just might swing by my Dad's tomorrow and watch it again with HIM ‼️ Before it becomes something that "I wished that I had done again", but it was too late 🙏 I wish EVERY AMERICAN could experience that Pride I felt on that Sunday afternoon in Lake Placid in February 1980... What seemed like such a LONG ride up, from the Boston area, the ride back could have been 3 time's the ride and it still wasn't long enough !! It was like floating on the cloud's... I'm still floating..
What happened to OUR GREAT COUNTRY... and I can't see most of the letters on this phone right now with ALL of these tears welled up in my eyes. I'd give anything to FIND that PRIDE again !!!
God Bless 🙏 &.....
Thanks DAD.....
For EVERYTHING !!! 🎯🇺🇲
Being a Minnesotan and Wisconsinite all my life, the Lake Placid Winter Games will always be my fondest memory in sports. Thanks to the most dedicated group of college hockey players and coach I have ever witnessed, along with Eric Heiden's incredible individual accomplishment----hooray for the USA!
Aaron Clarey channel
Who’s Eric Heiden?
@@TylerEubank A speed skater from the US who won all five gold medals in speed skating at Lake Placid in 1980
No Gold without the boys from Massachusetts.
@@TOCC50 are you talking about the “Enjoy the decline” author??
I drove home in a snowstorm from college, with a group of friends, to watch this with my parents.
I so remember waking up early on Sunday morning to watch the game in my dorm room!!
Same at our college rent house
This all started the great career or Al Michaels. But we cannot remember the great skill and professionalism of Jim McKay....MR. Wide World of Sports. What a great man he was. Don’t forget he was at the Munich Olympics and was thrush into covering the terrorist attack.....and did a phenomenal job!
Great broadcasters. Best of all time. Michaels (Reds broadcaster who gave the mic to Marty Brenneman) to this to SNF. ABC had had AL, McKay, Keith Jackson. Good old days.
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Ken Dryden as a color commentator....he maybe the smartest color commentator ever to grace the sport of hockey!!
When Eurizone was offered a contract for the NHL...he simply told them....
"No thank you....I've already achieved the pinnacle of success!"
I think Kenny Morrow might have something to say about that !!!
I doubt Eruzione would have been an NHL regular but would have gotten a Cup of coffee with someone.
Dud you see my comment regarding the USA player pool
of 1976-77 USA players born between 1955&58?
I grew up in Minneapolis and skated with and against many of these guys, Herbie was also our coach in Summer hockey, including Ken Yackel hockey school. Herbie was also a personal friend of my uncle that coached at Mahtomedi.. great memories 🏒🥅
Thanks for the post. Forgot that ABC missed two.goals in the 3rd. I suddenly feel like having a tab. Still the greatest event in Sports history. 40 years. Wow
I was confused why all goals covered by ads.
Certainly was...cold war was a big part of it....they beat a russian all star team, incredible
only 70's kids with remember tab cola
they actually just missed verchota's tying goal, the guy who put out the video missed 2 goals
McClanahans goal is shown at the end of the vid th-cam.com/video/ZQGUk-6GX_c/w-d-xo.html
1:02:08 Steve’s goal
1:34:26 Phil’s goal
1:40:03 Rob’s goal
1:58:55 Mark’s goal
2:06:55 A dream come true
2:09 Craig looks for his Father
Finland was far from success...
2:09:00 @@mikejorsch304 Yeah, and even reading lips you can tell he says "Wheahs my fahtha?" Long live the Boston accent!
And of course the commercials played during two of of the four American goals so all you saw was the celebration once you returned from the commercials.
22:40 jukkas beautiful goal
1:06:45 the prettiest goal ive ever seen. at least 2 of those passes seem to defy the laws of physics
They couldn’t of played commercials at any worse times 😂
Yeah. During the two consecutive US goals
Is The Game Official Version with Commercials or just The Game ?
Have*
I concur! The director should have been taken out and shot!!!
I remember that from watching the 1980 Games; ABC was frequently in commercial break when the U.S. or one of the opponents scored.
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40 years ago today.
February 24, 1980.
USA! USA!
Still believing in miracles!
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I love this so much. Best TEAM in history of sports.
I can remember getting off of work and rushing home to my little black & white tv with the rabbit ears antenna and not watching or listening to anything! I watched the Soviet game not knowing what the score would be ... my stomach was in knots! Greatest hockey game I ever saw - and the 2 games the greatest sports moments of my life!!!
Today all these many years later I'm watching this again! And again! It pops up on my screen and I can't allow myself to get passed it. THANK YOU!!!!!! Tge only thing I miss is the locker room afterwards. The pure happiness and bliss on the ice when we beat Russia and then Finland. The tv cut awway from it way too soon, didn't get to see them leave the ice and go back to the locker room. But it's still great.
02:09:16 . . When that girl helped Craig to find his father was the climax of this fairy tale . . Watched this final for the first time and that too after 40 years and so far far away from USA . . Actually from Pakistan . . No doubts . . The greatest sports moment ever . . Second greatest sports moment goes to Maradona for his 1986 Goal of the Century, when he single handedly buried the english defences . . Third position goes to Javed Miandad for his 1986 last ball six against India at Sharjah . . Fourth place goes to Nikki Lauda with his head bleeding for his 1976 Italian Grand Prix brilliant third position just six weeks after his horrendous and almost fatal Nuremberg crash . . And you all are invited to choose the fifth top sports moment ever of yours . . . .
The girl that helped Craig find his father was girlfriend or fiancee to dave silk? or one of the other players. Sweet gesture. I think his dad had already gone to the locker room.
Was Mark Johnson's fiance I thought.
Crazy fact: according to Mike Eruzione, during the second intermission in the locker room (the USA was down 2-1), Herb Brooks said to his players, “if you lose this game, you'll take it to your f**king graves… your f**king graves”. The USA came back and won 4-2 for the Gold Medal.
Nothing will ever stop me from loving my country 🇺🇸
Aside from great hockey skills, that first U.S. goal at 1:02:00 was the result of Coach Brooks’ relentless insistence on CONDITIONING．
Morrow....frozen four at BGSU...Olympic Gold Medalist for the US...Stanley Cup Champion.
That guy was a winner!!
My Grand Parents took me to an early church service that morning. Just so they made sure we got back to their house to see THIS GAME LIVE! This was the proudest sports moment I've ever seen.
Amazing to me that in 1980 ABC couldn't figure out how to show an entire hockey game with no commercials.
Corey Burnett your joking right.no commercials!?
They would have to do what soccer does and nobody did that in 1980.
Sports coverage was certainly not as good back then.
The bottom line is this - we beat the Soviets.......no cheating, no government subsidies........a bunch of American college kids embodying courage and absolute teamwork.
And, lull the opponent into a level of no competition complacency. Then ya got a chance!
What a Game - 40 years - 2020 ! Many in Finland remember This - but Never seen It ! Past Midnight & Many BEDTIME ! Thanks for Sharing !
shame yall culdnt get bronze. i luv 2 c SUOMI represent @ worlds, jrs., etc.
Jep!Awesome Film
The game was on at 11am est. It couldn't have been past midnight in Finland.
I paused and thought of all the practice, pain and sacrifice that led up to the USA opportunity and then the fight to win the top and one must not forget the opposition who did the same thing. Out of all this: Champions are made! Good job boys
With all of the tragedy and hardships that the U.S. faced during the 70's, this victory was just what this country needed. It wasn't just a victory for a collective group of young hockey players, but for a nation that needed something to feel good about.
Ironically Herb Brooks said the gold medal game against Finland was probably the worst game the team played all tournament.
He was right about that for the 1st two periods. I thought the 3rd period was one of their best periods however. Better late than never.
Finland had the lead on the Soviets with 5 minutes left.
According to Mark Johnson, between the 2nd and 3rd periods, Herb came into the locker room and said one thing twice, before leaving: "If you lose this one you'll take it to your #$&@! graves."
Hard not to have a bit of a letdown after the Soviet game.
I'd have appreciated Goodyear a lot more if they had donated their commercial time to letting the game coverage stay live.
'put ad in corner of screen while keepin camera on field of play' concept had not been devised yet, sadly ... [!!]
It’s weird, back in the day when taping TV shows on VHS, people would try to cut out the commercials, now looking back all these years it’s the best part of watching old stuff.
Hats off for leaving them in.
Just to set the record straight, the 1960 US Olympic hockey team won the gold and vanquished the USSR in the process. 1960 did not have Al Michaels and ABC to hype their accomplishment.
How great it was that they got the short-handed goal after that criminally bad call. Unforgettable experience watching these games on TV, what it must have been like to be there. The cowboys were NEVER America's team, but these guys sure we're.
Crazy how we scored two goals during commercials lol. But seeing those old ads and the interviews after the game was fun. I will never get tired of watching all the shows about this team and their spectacular performance. ... RIP Bob Suter and Mark Pavelich
too true, and pavelich, what a magician, he literally did the impossible on the ice.
Only US player to ever score
5 goals in an NHL game.
Too bad he and Bobby Carpenter missed the 1981 Canada Cup.
They only missed one goal. The guy who did this video missed the 3rd.
i was lucky to be there. still have my ticket
That's amazing! Lucky guy!!!
wayne louey if I could be anywhere in history in last 100 years it’s lake placid 1980
2020 - 40 years ago !
Wow
Years ago the game winning puck was posted on ebay, 10,000.00
'Come on now...' truly Minnesotan...
We need something like this for our country right now in 2020 🇺🇸
Now in 2022. This country is an absolute mess in every way imaginable.
@@STMARTIN009thanks to JOE Biden and Democrats cheating in the 2020 election
"You lose this game, you'll take it to your fucking graves! Your fucking graves!"-Herb Brooks
GOD BLESS THE 1980 AMERICAN HOCKEY TEAM FOREVERMORE ! AND GOD BLESS AMERICA - !
I remember watching this when I was seven years old! The thrill we all felt when the USA took that 3-2 lead latevin the game. Good come-from-behind win.
I was almost 10 at the time.
can't even imagine the insane party these guys had after this game lmao
Great job by ABC wedging in an ad and missing the tying goal. The beginning of network greed poisoning sports.
What do you mean beginning?
@@Rockhound6165 indeed. dis was in midst of nasl gams where dey wuld stuf a commerical durin, like, a gol kik ... & hope no1 took a shot [!!]
Commercial greed is one thing, but Olympic coverage has always been the absolute worst, because on top of that they add all the dopey "human interest" crap to keep people who aren't really sports fans interested. There's nothing like watching a nordic ski race or something and having them cut away right in the middle to show you a human interest story about what one of the skiers does in the summertime, or Mary Carillo drinking hot chocolate. I have wanted to murder the producers of Olympics coverage ever since I can remember.
Actually, International hockey did not allow for "commercial" breaks. They just played the game. I am sure ABC would LOVED to have televised that goal live.
What's funny is we think of sports being more commercialised now than then, and they are, but in old hockey days this was more likely to happen. Before 1992-93, the NHL didn't schedule commercial breaks so I'm pretty sure networks just crammed them in when they could and would occasionally miss snippets of play.
And I don't think the Olympics- even now- allow time for tv timeouts. I can't remember since it's been four years since Olympic hockey but I think, at least in Canada, they just don't do ads or just do brief 15 second ones.
It's kind of funny that some people do remember that the USA/USSR "semi-final" (not really accurate term) wasn't broadcast live, but the benefit of that was at least you saw all the goals!
That Jari Kurri guy looks pretty good. If you can get him with a good Center he might do pretty well.
/golf clap
Yep, some 19-year old Canadian named Gretzky or something?
@@mkrupp2011 yea, but EDM. how wil any1 b successful der [????!!!!]
nah, europeans can't play the NHL game.
He teamed with one. Some guy named the Great One #99 Wayne Gretzky (Greatest Hockey player of all-time) and all he did was win 5 Stanley Cups in Edmonton (4 with Gretzky). I would say Kurri did very well. All he did was finish his career as, at that time, the highest scoring European-born-and-trained player in NHL history, with 601 goals, 797 assists, and 1,398 points (Since passed by others).
In Feb 1980 I was a HS frosh not handling life too well 8 months after my dad died. But when the Miracle happened, it helped pulled me back, right along with the rest of the country. For weeks after the Olympics were over, I rode my bike home from school at lunch every day to watch reruns of the soviet game on our newfangled device called a VCR.
Team USA Roster: 1 - Steve Janaszak / 3 - Ken Morrow / 5 - Mike Ramsey / 6 - Bill Baker / 8 - Dave Silk / 9 - Neal Broten / 10 - Mark Johnson / 11 - Steve Christoff
15 - Mark Wells / 16 - Mark Pavelich / 17 - Jack O'Callahan / 19 - Eric Strobel / 20 - Bob Suter / 21 - Mike Eruzione (c) / 23 - Dave Christian / 24 - Rob McClanahan
25 - Buzz Schneider / 27 - Phil Verchota / 28 - John Harrington / 30 - Jim Craig. Head Coach - Herb Brooks / Assistant Coach - Craig Patrick
Team FIN Roster: #1 Antero Kivelä, #3 Seppo Suoraniemi, #4 Olli Saarinen, #6 Hannu Haapalainen, #8 Tapio Levo (c) , #9 Kari Eloranta, #10 Lasse Litma, #12 Esa Peltonen (a) , #13 Ismo Villa, #15 Mikko Leinonen, #17 Jari Kurri, #19 Jorma Valtonen, #20 Jukka Koskilahti, #21 Hannu Koskinen, #22 Reijo Leppänen, #23 Markku Hakulinen, #25 Jukka Porvari, #28 Jarmo Mäkitalo, #29 Timo Susi. Head Coach - : Kalevi Numminen / Assistant Coach - Frank Moberg
JTB60 GSO Did Bob Suter ever play?
@@ville948 I didn't realize Jari Kurri played in this game. Thanks for the list!
Suter didn't play this game and didn't play much but more than Janaszak who didn't play at all.
Honestly Jack Hughes should have been there over Suter but
Brooks and Hughes didn't get along.
jim mckay took 48 years to discover what a great sport hockey is!
1980 to 2020 is 40 years ! Happy News Year 2020
@@holoholopainen1627 one of these days, Finland will win the Gold Medal in Men's hockey in the Olympics.
@@jasongoodwin6132 Kiitos ! Finland has been 2nd twice ! At Calgary 1988 & Turin ( Torino ) 2006 ! Turin Games were GREAT - We had The BEST TEAM EVER !
@@holoholopainen1627 Ole Hyvä! I watched Team Finland play in 2006. That was hard to watch them lose against Sweden, especially since Teppo Numminen was one of my favorite players at the time.
They'll beat those Swedish bad piggies! After all, I'll never forget the early days of Angry Birds when they flew the Finnish flag and the bad piggies flew the Swedish flag
@@holoholopainen1627 Great players from Suomi ! Spent many a night admiring Kurri or Selanne.
This is only my second time seeing this game.
Didn't realize that Jari Kurri played in the 1980 Olympics.
Even though I love those CCCP Olympic teams, I love this 1980 USA team.
What a time...
Pelle Lindbergh also played in those Olympics for Sweden
Yeah I was also surprised to see that Kurri played for Finland...and wasn't even considered the best player on the team, according to Al Michaels.
@@mikes3827 Do You know - Which year Kurri was born ? 1960 - so He was just 19 or 20 ! Where was Canada at These Games ?
@@holoholopainen1627 Canada missed the medal round due to losing to Finland in the opening round robin play. They had to beat the Soviets to advance in the final game and lost 6-4(they had a 3-2 lead going into the 3rd period).
@@Rockhound6165 Nobody talks about Team Canada at These Games ? Was The Miracle just for USA born players or Hockey in General ! At the time Most NHL PLAYERS - Were still born in Canada !
1:34:24 They missed one of the greatest moments in US sports history for a Tab Cola commercial, then another at 1:40:00 for a Goodyear commercial. You gotta be kidding me.
But it’s tab….. what a shitty drink! Only thing worse would have been shasta!
Forty-one years ago today on a Sunday...just watch a great moment in U.S. sports history--again! (I watched this game at my grandmother's apartment in California!)
It's Great to see they have the Audio line up with the Video so spot on, perfecto.
It's weird how the USA boys were wicked smart at all of the right times.
lol what do you mean?
Ken Morrow! Stanley Cup champ for those great Islander clubs!
Would have been funny if the refs would have called a too many men on the ice penalty at 2 seconds left when the USA bench emptied. :) One of the greatest moments in sports! Thank you for posting the video!
I would like to thank the 19 Russians who thumbed down this video for tuning in to watch. Thank you for the great hockey.
Getting so old, I remember watching this on a tiny B/W TV, then I remember the 10 year anniversary when I graduated High School, then the 25 year reunion (which seemed like yesterday) and now it's been 40 years. Crazy.
The Greatest, what do they all say? 20 of us this team, the team, we, every question, everytime.
Sure wish we could get back to real men like this.
This is incredible. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Hockey 🏒 Chanel !!
Loved the full reel game.. with the added bonus of all those 80’s Commercials!!
Whew that Czech Ref was an a***h**e .. he must a got a call from the KGB .. plus the clip from the 1960 Squaw Valley Team was cool .. those guys were GOOD!! No helmets? WTF hilarious..
The U.S.A. Men's Hockey team won the Gold Medal - - AND - - in 1980 - - These were the 13th Winter Olympics - - We can never say that the number 13 is unlucky---For this team - - - the number 13 is great - - 13 is the new good luck number !
Most amazing sporting event in my life time.
For the record, this wasn't the gold medal game. The medal round consisted of the top two teams from both groups. The two teams from group A would play the two teams from group B. Also head to head in the group stage counted. Whoever got the most points (2 for win, 1 for tie) won the gold. So if the USA lost, they would've only had 3 points and likely wouldnt have medaled at all.
I think they would have won bronze sine Finland and the US would have been tied with three points after the USSR beat Sweden. But it could have been silver depending on what the 1st tie breaker was.
@@paulsonj72 LPGA
Pp
Still gives chills and instills pride!
USA!
Basically the Soviet game for team US was the equivalent of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series for the NY Mets
Forty years ago (February 24th, 1980)!
altfactor .......really ?
Each time they score it’s during a commercial lol great coverage lol
Finland got the first medal 1988.
News flash, this game was live. They didn’t do TV time outs back then. Not much ABC could do.
Yes, International hockey would not take TV time outs
Herbs Brooks Physical Conditioning Drills helped Save the U.S. Team during those Short Handed Situations! The Magic Mans Short Handed Goal 4 - 2 USA !!!!
The USA outscored their opponents 16-3 in the third period. 5-0 in the medal round.
Unreal... worth watching.... brought back alot of memories
Thanks so much for posting this!
A friend of my parents was at Bates College at the time. She was offered a ticket to the game but declined saying she should study instead. Not even a real hockey fan she said it was one of the biggest mistakes of her life. And she failed her Organic Chem test anyway.
that would have been one hell of a drive
@@afuzzycreature8387 One hell of a game.
Cracks me up to this day:
ABC; "call your friends, make sure they watch it".
ABC; "you can only watch it live, only here"
ABC; cuts to commercial, missing tie goal...
Most underrated sporting event ever. Jim McKay perfection
What? This was rated the number 1 sporting event of the 20th century. 24 years into the 21st century still nothing has ever come close.
James,
Ill take what that guy is smoking...lol.
I subscribed to your channel
I love how they were in commercial for half the goals.
tony palombini jr awful ABC
@@MrDuds1984 Problem is they had no clue what they were doing. You would think the producer might have inquired into the length of a stoppage in play. Guess they didn't think of that.
tony palombini jr I will grant them that 1980 was so different in live sports coverage than it is today. Maybe there is Canadian coverage somewhere out there of the game
sadly, that's how they broadcast hockey back then. No TV time outs
They only missed Verchota's goal not McClanahan's. The person who put this together missed two.
It's hard to describe how huge this was. The Soviets were the best, literally unbeatable and 'amature' in name only. Imagine a college hockey team beating the Stanley cup champion. It's unthinkable, unimaginable, and it will never be seen again. It's all real pro's now. All star teams thrown together for a couple weeks. Team USA in the 1980 Olympics, played over 40 games together before the Olympics. I miss the Olympics from those days. It seemed like it meant more.
Thanks for posting. This is the second time I watched this broadcast. The first was live 40 years ago. I recall the Friday night game against the Russians was not broadcast live. I was able to watch the taped version Friday night.
I have a very vague memory of one US goal against Finland being missed because of an ad, but I didn't recall two of them. Bad job on the part of the network. I probably was still so happy about the Friday night result that I didn't mind.
My wife and I had gone to the Saturday afternoon game against the Russians at Madison Square Garden a few days before the Olympics. They were so good pounding the American kids that I couldn't help applauding one or two of their late goals set up by great passing and skating. Just stunned that the USA won it all after that.
I had watched 18 of the 20 Americans play college hockey at one time or another. And two of them play in high school. Mark Johnson (Madison Memorial and now the Badgers women's hockey coach and Bob Suter Madison East who unfortunately passed a few years ago.)
I grew up in Greater Boston
and graduated from UMass
in '77, so I had seen the BU 4
play a lot and watched Johnson & Suter in the '77 and '78 NCAA.
Didn't get the opportunity to see The UMinnesota kids until
the '79 NCAA.
That group of NCAA eligible players born from 1955-58
who played from 1976-77 thru
1978-79 was every bit as good if
not better than there counter parts
born in 1955-58 from USSR, Czechoslovakia and Sweden.
Czechoslovakia had essentially Peter Stastny from those birth years, while Sweden was definitely
better with Kent Nillson, Thomas Gradin and several others.
The Soviets had 2 D men born in '55 in Pervukhin and Bilayaletidinov and no forwards born 55-57!!! They had Malaria upfront born in '58 and Fetisov and Starikov from '58 on D.
The US produced the best '55 iin the world in Mark Howe who could play forward and defense along with Mike O'Connell and Paul Holmgren. '56 saw Reed Larson and Morrow on D and Tom Rowe up front. '57 had Steve Baker in net along with Rod Langway and Gord Roberts on D and Joe Mullen and Mark Johnson up front. '58 produced Mark Pavelich upfront with Steve Christoff.
What a fabulous defensive scheme....bottling up Finland at mid-ice. One of the finest third period teams ever.
I remember how much fun it was watching this tourney. The usa just kept getting better every game. the Soviet game was not shown live . We had to watch the replay and almost everyone knew the result before. This game instead was shown live probably because it meant the gold medal with a usa win.
Brooks was amazing...
The Soviet Union beat Finland 4-2 and Canada 6-4 earlier. When I think of the way the format was back then had Canada defeated Finland then Finland would have played Czechoslovakia instead of Canada for 5th place before the United States vs Soviet Union game and the United States would have faced Canada for the Final here instead of Finland. Either way I think the United States would have still won against Canada. But it would have been interesting. When the United States last won the Gold before this in 1960 they beat Canada in that Winter Olympics.
Wood sticks... zero flex and a lot harder to shape. Damn things were 5lb-7lbs as well. New stick technology has made a huge difference in the game. Skates as well, back in the 80’s, ice skates were heavy as steel toe boots. Not the feather light carbon fiber stuff the kids have now. It’s so amazing to see how much the game changed. I’ve seen peewee games that go faster then this.
Mitigated by much smaller goalie equipment and no butterfly pads.
1980 was the first year for the plastic skate blade frames
Dubble D yeah, first Olympics anyway. But still not like today’s.
Sports are really strange. I remember thinking why doesn't the goalie go down on shots (butterfly) as a kid. I also remember thinking they should make bigger, but lighter pads for goalies. I also remember thinking why do NFL QBs plant their feet after throwing a ball only to get their knees snapped (Peyton Manning changed that). It's crazy how stubborn sports are and how long it takes them to change. Those players wouldn't have gotten half the goals with butterfly goalies nowadays.
SeanP7195 funny you mention all that. I was just remembering the other day how I used to think, “Why don’t teams just get a bunch of three-point shooters and shoot threes all day?” And now that’s what you see. We were ahead of our time!
That game was televised on an alphabetical TV station (WXYZ) on an alphabetical network (ABC)! WXYZ is in Detroit, Michigan at last look. Like New York, L.A., San Francisco, and Chicago, they are on Channel 7 (lol)!
Cool. Cheers from Canada!
With all due respect to modern day hockey, these times were better and hockey players then were the best there ever was, meaning all the players on all the teams, not just the winners. I was age 17 when these games were played. I was already a hockey fan but the USSR game turned me into a diehard. In winter, which is 8 months where I live, we get through these long winters watching and playing hockey. The world was much different back then -- drastically so, much simplier, and more at stake than just a hockey score and medal to be earned. A person not born prior to the end of the Cold War or the break down of the Berlin Wall, cannot comprehend the importance and extreme tension inherent in these games, which was felt just watching the games on TV. The games were not live unless you were in Canada. I watched on a delay, later the same day of the games, not knowing in advance the outcome. When the USA tied Sweden so near the end of the game -- Sweden having been expected to win -- then defeated Germany and the Czech teams, and the Czech Republic just as much an enermy of the USA as USSR, not to memtion their hockey team so favored to be the silver medalist that it was literally an expectation, and not just winning the game but our USA team had dominated and crushed the Czech team, by a score of 7 to 3. None of these preliminary "group" wins was even forecast as remotely possible. Then, they performed flawlessly with the Soviets and won! And finally this game with Finland, just as edge of the seat exciting and frankly, nail biting tense most of the game, same as with the Soviets. Many times here and there, all the time since these games and watching them all, I have found myself reliving the moments and in awe. Hard to comprehend it's been 40 years. 40 years! The footage is comical given how much television has changed! The timing and quality of the commercials; no banners from advertisers all over the boards and under the ice; no time clock or score plastered in the upper corner.
It was a much simpler time, and all of the ad's were not needed. Now days everyone wants to know things "RIGHT THE FUCK NOW!!" hence all of the extra stuff on screen and the team owners are just greedy with the ads in the arena. I long for things to be much simpler, for kids to go outside and play and not sit in front of a game console and do really nothing.
@@yankee_tangoAren’t y’all the same parent generation that keeps their kid inside and buys them those consoles because “the outside isn’t safe”?
@@rsswolf7068 No sir I am not. My Daughter who is 31 years of age now was a child that actually went out and played. She was involved in sports as well as Ju Jitsu. So her use of social media was very limited. She was disciplined as a child as well and has a solid work ethic. So I guess my age of 58 may put me in that grouping as you say but that is not how my daughter was raised.
What a loser you are. As are the Americans. The so-called 'Miracle on Ice' wasn't even televised live. 😅 What a joke. Why bother watching a replay of a sports game?
@bestoutcomes,
The Czech goalie was barely ECHL level and cost them in this game.
McClanahan's goal was brutal.
This US Team had several players who would have been on an Olympic Team made up of US pros.
G - Craig
D - Morrow - Ramsey
C - Johnson - Pavelich
W - Christian - Christoff
Wonder what a 7 game series would have looked like with this team.
G - Baker-Craig
D - Sargent - Langway
Larson - Milbury
Morrow - Dunn
C Howe-Ftorek-Johnson -Pavelich
LW - Fidler -Jensen-Miller- Gorence
RW Rowe-Talafous-Holmgren Mullen
The relative lack of graphics and special effects makes it feel more like i am really there in person.
Al Michaels who was a part of the broadcasting crew of the hockey games had said about this game, that the United States was talking to the USSR hockey federation about having the game on later,but 5 pm was the time the game stayed at.Reason being was that at 5 pm on the east coast,it was 2 pm in the west coast.it was looked at at that time, 2pm no one would really home at that time ,thats how the head honcho of ABC looked at it .The same guy actually did consider having the game aired live at 5pm, though.what was interesting too, about the hockey games during the 1980 winter Olympics that were aired on ABC was that 3 out of the 7 hockey games played were actually aired in its entirety ,including the ''miracle on ice'' game, .ABC, that year in 1980, aired 51 hours of Olympic coverage in those 13 days with most of the daytime coverage falling on the weekend.
The commercials are fantastic
Poland performed a similar miracle 4 years earlier. It is clear that the USSR is a head stronger than the student team, which was proved at the Canada Cups, in which the Americans played in the strongest team and included the heroes of Lake Placid.
Jari Kurri on Team Finland! Great stuff all around...
I sure would have been nice to see the 2nd and 3rd USA goal (and not the commercials).
THank you
I loved this so much I'm leaving for ac Delco immediately
0:56 “by Chevrolet and shit everywhere”
USA Hockey as Far as its MEN'S Program is concerned needs to spend more Time PREPARING its Men's Teams for the World Championships and Winter Olympics like Herb Brooks did in 1979 - 80 !
nobody really cares anymore, they are all nhl players, no secrets
@@DonQwantsyou until league gets stoopid like in 2018 [!!]
No one cares about the world championships. They’re every year and during the nhl playoffs. The only people who care about them are tiny European nations with crappy teams. I do think hockey could benefit from one or two international breaks every nhl season where national teams get to really become teams for the Olympics and any potential world cups.
czech ref almost killed them with that call with 4 min to go!
thought czechs and ruskies hated each other, this guy was trying to help the soviet bloc!
shorthanded goal by johnson was justice
Finland was not in the Soviet bloc
This has to be the hardest game in the world to understand. Amazing athletes. This was the night that the tide turned for the red, white, and blue.
Point of curiosity: if USA and Finland tied this game, both the US and USSR would have had 4 points in the standings. What would have been the tie-breaker? Head-to-head result or goal differential?