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Mike Eruzione reveals untold stories from ‘Miracle on Ice’ Olympic hockey game | USA TODAY Sports



USA TODAY Sports’ Larry Berger sits down for an exclusive conversation with 1980 US Olympic hockey captain Mike Eruzione, who scored the game-winning goal against the Soviet Union. The win catapulted the squad to the gold medal game against Finland, which was won by Team USA.

Forty years later, the Olympic hero provides a unique look back at the events which contributed to this game being remembered as perhaps the most memorable sporting event in US history.

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37 Comments

  3. Jim Holt

    Being from Bloomington MN, you could not imagine the pride we all shared when Team USA practiced at our hometown arena, and also knowing that many of the boys were from our state ..
    I can still remember when Neal Broten was drafted to the Mn North Stars in 81 –

    Neal Broten is regarded as one of the best, if not the best hockey player the state of Minnesota has ever produced.

  5. John Monti

    I rember watching the replay like around 6 o'clock I was 14 yrs old at the time I rember watching the news they said they were not going to give the score so watched unbelievable game

  7. SARDiverDave

    "Three inches left, you're painting bridges."

    Michael Eruzione's friends. Love that he shares that.

    Eruption, put on your skates. We need you now.

  11. Alexandre Bertrand-Lafleur

    Hey who are you?

    Mike Eruzione!

    Where are you from?

    Winthorp, Mass.

    and who you play for?

    I played for… UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!

    Thanks Mike for the winning goal!

  13. TMach5

    Someone forgot to tell the interviewer that the USA team beat the Soviet Union , not Russia. It’s silly, but if the opposite were true, it’s like saying the Soviet Union beat Washington DC.

  14. SIA Investigations Team

    The greatest sporting event and underdog win of all time. When I'm feeling shitty about being an American, I watch about the 1980 USA hockey team.

  19. ToltalDomination x

    I was born in 83 so I unfortunately didn’t witness it live obviously but in 2004 when the movie was released I watched the movie and loved it and eventually the complete game was posted on YouTube and I have watched that probably 100+ times. One of the greatest sports moments ever. I get chills just typing about it.

  20. Gary B

    I love the clueless question about the Namath proclamation
    He didn’t realize he was interviewing a HOCKEY player
    The sports about humility and teamwork
    There not much chest thumping past the college level

  21. Patrick Roloff

    3:58 is the moment when I – a german native living abroad – realizes what power and love must have been beyond those words spelled by the legendary
    Herb Brooks.
    Boy Oh Boy how much energy I generate from that story since I've heard about for the first time.
    Thank you for inspiring me over and over again

  22. Chosen Plays

    We need a moment like that again. Something to make us remember even if we disagree on something we’re all prideful Americans.

  23. Gregory H

    The 1980 hockey team is a bunch of MAGA Republicans who ae still fighting the cold war and for segregation. what they did in 1980 is cool. Who they are now is not.

  24. Christopher Roth

    All the events surrounding this game were so unique that it can never again be replicated, it is enshrined forever as the greatest upset in sports history

  25. Willys44

    I was age 15, a hockey player in Minnesota. I had attended the Herb Brooks hockey camps in Shattuck, MN. Watching this with friends and the Gold medal ceremony was something I will never forget. Miracle on Ice !!!

  27. Some Guy

    I met him during a golf tournament so down to earth and such a high school legend too, I always tell my high school players about him how a local kid made the Olympics and won the gold it always inspires

  28. miked765

    I was a high school frosh and my had died six months before this. I was one of those people to whom this was much more than a hockey game. Also we'd just recently got a then-newfangled device called a VCR and I rode my bike home from school during lunch every day for weeks after the Games to re-watch it. My all-time most impactful/favorite sports moment.

  29. Denise Kruse

    I watched the game 43 years ago was the most exciting sports event I’ve ever seen. Watch miracle at least once a year ,always brings tears to my eyes,last night I watched the real game for the first time since 1980, real game was better than movie Ha still brought tears.Nothing will ever compare to that game.

  32. Todd Michel

    I'm 56. I remember being at the Des Moines ice arena watching The Buc's and the PA announcer says the score. And the crowd roars. It was between periods. Funny how people remember great things like that. Great interview

  34. Hawaiiguy Kailua

    Untold story is the soviets let US win. I mean let's get real, they demolished them a few weeks prior with there backups 10-3 and it could have been much worse. Then suddenly they forgot how to skate, let alone play hockey against a bunch of scrubs from no name colleges in US, yeah I don't believe in miracles, but I do believe in dirty politics.

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