
On this day in history, Feb. 22, 1980, US Olympic men's hockey team shocks Soviets in 'Miracle on Ice'
Fox News
The U.S. Olympic men's hockey team shocked the Soviet Union 4-3 on this day in history, Feb. 22, 1980. The victory has been dubbed the Miracle on Ice.
The victory by American boys in Lake Placid, New York, over the invincible Soviets, winners of four straight Olympic gold medals, proved much more than a hockey game. "We could use another 1980 right now." — U.S. Olympic hockey legend Mike Eruzione "The mighty Soviets buckled after being punched in the nose by Uncle Sam's young skaters." "It came out of my heart." – Al Michaels on his famous 1980 hockey call "People still come up to me and cry when they tell me what that moment meant to them." — Eruzione Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
It shook the nation out of what President Jimmy Carter depressingly called America's "crisis of confidence" only seven months earlier in his infamous "malaise" speech.













