U.S. Olympic Hockey Legend Reveals How He Almost Missed 1980 ‘Miracle on Ice’

Ryan Berenz January 29, 2026, 2:05 pm

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On February 22, 1980, the U.S. Men’s Hockey Team scored one of the biggest upsets in sports history, knocking off the heavily favored Soviet Union 4-3 in a medal round game at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Netflix reunited several members of the team in Lake Placid to share their memories and look back on the significance of that Olympics for the new feature-length documentary Miracle: The Boys of ’80, premiering Friday, January 30. ReMIND spoke to one of those team members about what it felt like to go back, and the injury that almost kept him off the ice.

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