1980 Hockey Team
Posted by Craine
1980 Hockey Team
Posted by: Craine (---.nyc.rr.com)
Date: February 08, 2002 11:31PM
Damn... That was cool....
Re: 1980 Hockey Team
Posted by: Josh '99 (---.stny.rr.com)
Date: February 09, 2002 01:58AM
Yo, you're right, that was awesome.
Re: 1980 Hockey Team
Posted by: AdamGanderson (---.syr.edu)
Date: February 09, 2002 11:45AM
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Re: 1980 Hockey Team
Posted by: Craine (---.nyc.rr.com)
Date: February 09, 2002 03:24PM
Cool... I've always wanted to be esteemed
Re: 1980 Hockey Team
Posted by: Robb (---.156.78.127.dial1.dallas1.level3.net)
Date: February 09, 2002 08:37PM
Just want to pat myself on the back a bit - as soon as Dorothy Hammill and Dick Butthead, er, Button carried the torch into the arena, I said to my wife, "I bet Eruzione gets to light it." Swear to Harkness.
Re: 1980 Hockey Team
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.ne.mediaone.net)
Date: February 10, 2002 02:45PM
The 1960 gold medal hockey team was honored at a dinner in Salt Lake City last night.
Jack Riley, their coach, lives across the street. He can be ornery--kinda like Ned--and has always felt his team's accomplishment is undervalued compared with the 1980 team. Likely the result of TV, Al Michaels, and the increased visibility of hockey in the US in 1980 (only the six original NHL teams in 1960, IIRC).
Jack Riley, their coach, lives across the street. He can be ornery--kinda like Ned--and has always felt his team's accomplishment is undervalued compared with the 1980 team. Likely the result of TV, Al Michaels, and the increased visibility of hockey in the US in 1980 (only the six original NHL teams in 1960, IIRC).
Re: 1980 Hockey Team
Posted by: ugarte (---.ipt.aol.com)
Date: February 10, 2002 03:19PM
The 1960 team is undervalued compared to the 1980 team. I don't think the 1960 team deserves to be relegated in that way, but I think the most important factor is being left out: how familiar the audience was with Tretiak, KLM, etc.
From my too-young-to-remember-1980-very-well-either eyes, the N.A. audience "knew" the 1980 Soviet team better than the 1960 audience "knew" the 1960 Soviet team. IIRC, North America had gotten to see the Soviets take on the best the NHL had to offer in the Canada Cup. In 1980, we thought that we were playing a team that had proven itself worthy of competing for, if not winning, a Stanley Cup if they were to join the NHL as a franchise. And in the Olympics, they were going to play a bunch of college kids.
I get the sense that in 1960 everyone knew that we had pulled off an upset, but only because the papers said so - not because the audience (as opposed to the cognoscenti) really knew how good the opposition was.
From my too-young-to-remember-1980-very-well-either eyes, the N.A. audience "knew" the 1980 Soviet team better than the 1960 audience "knew" the 1960 Soviet team. IIRC, North America had gotten to see the Soviets take on the best the NHL had to offer in the Canada Cup. In 1980, we thought that we were playing a team that had proven itself worthy of competing for, if not winning, a Stanley Cup if they were to join the NHL as a franchise. And in the Olympics, they were going to play a bunch of college kids.
I get the sense that in 1960 everyone knew that we had pulled off an upset, but only because the papers said so - not because the audience (as opposed to the cognoscenti) really knew how good the opposition was.
Re: 1980 Hockey Team
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.ne.mediaone.net)
Date: February 10, 2002 06:07PM
Very true, apple. Probably the best indication anyone had of the strength of the Russians--at least to those who paid attention to such things in 1960--was their 18-1 win over Riley's US team the year before.
Re: 1980 Hockey Team
Posted by: jy3 (---.twcny.rr.com)
Date: February 10, 2002 07:00PM
yeah i predicted eruzione to light it about half way thru the opening ceremonies who else would have gotten the torch?
Re: 1980 Hockey Team
Posted by: AdamGanderson (---.syr.edu)
Date: February 11, 2002 03:19PM
I firmly believe the word "cognoscenti" should be used far more often. It might just make this forum a better place. : )
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