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Team USA Remembers Miracle On Ice

KevinTR at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons

Thirty five years after the Miracle on Ice, the surviving members of the 1980 Team USA hockey team returned to Lake Placid to relive the event.

Team captain Mike Eruzione scored the winning goal against the Russian team. He said  the game endures because it touched the nation.

"When it's the Olympic games it's the nation that feels a part of you. So everybody was on board. I've had over the years so many people come up to me and they'll say I remember where I was when we won. And I went like We? I didn't know you were on the team. But that's what it meant to people. They felt like they were a part of it."

Two members of the team have passed away. Coach Herb Brooks was killed in a car accident in Minnesota in August 2003.

Defenseman Bob Suter died last September.

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