Miracle on Ice

[jeh25]

Jeff Hopkins '82 wrote:

More frustrating to me was that my parents refused to give me any money to go up to Lake Placid for the games, then finding out that several of my fraternity brothers had 7th row seats for the gold medal game.  It still bugs me.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Just put 'em in a crummy residential care facility when the time comes....and make sure they know why.  ::twitch::

[CUlater 89]

Any one care to compare it to the TV movie from '81 starring Karl Malden, Andrew Stevens, Steve Guttenberg and others?

In that one, they made a point of showing Brooks telling Eruzione that as captain, it was his job to bear the brunt of Brooks' histrionics.

Also, they included Cornellian and super agent Art Kaminsky in the story.

[dss28]

I like how IMDB has Patrick O'Brien Demsey playing "Mike Cruzione."

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

It was the game in which the USA clinched the gold medal.  My description stands ::moon::

What I also remember my friends telling me was that nobody expected the US to be in contention, so tickets were easy to get on one or two days notice.  But once we beat the Russians, the tickets all disappeared.

JH

[Báby_Fan]

Yet another article on the movie if you are interested...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/jon_dolezar/02/05/miracle/?cnn=yes

[dss28]

I just got back from seeing it, and I'll be seeing it again tonight.  It was... in a word... incredible.

In a few words, it was ... well, yeah.  Incredible.

...yeah.

Quick question:  When did "Atlanta" become a team?  There was a comment in there about "Atlanta's trying to sign me [or draft me... whatever, Atlanta was trying to do something to him.]..." I have to believe that they didn't make a GROSS oversight and mean the Atlanta Thrashers -- was there another Atlanta team back in 79-80?

[rhovorka]

dss28 wrote:

Quick question:  When did "Atlanta" become a team?  There was a comment in there about "Atlanta's trying to sign me [or draft me... whatever, Atlanta was trying to do something to him.]..." I have to believe that they didn't make a GROSS oversight and mean the Atlanta Thrashers -- was there another Atlanta team back in 79-80?

In one of the few positive franchise relocations in NHL history, the Atlanta Flames moved to Calgary in 1980.

[CUlater 89]

SI had a photo of Craig in a Flames uniform on a cover.  I imagine you could find it on the website.

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

What I've always liked is Calgary uses the old Atlanta Flames "A" logo for their Assistant Captain patch.

JH

[Kristen \'00]

I saw this movie tonight too and it was truly incredible.  The audience was clapping and cheering as if we were actually at the games.  I made my non-hockey loving friends come and they agreed this was a great movie.  It was nice to see the shots of Lake Placid--brought back memories of trips to the ECACs.

[ugarte]

please don't tell me who won

[Section A]

I know everyone else has already said this, but that isn't going to stop me!....

Saw the movie today; it was even better than I thought it would be. They did a really good job setting the scene for the game (i.e. the political/social climate in the US and the world at the time). Very well done. As someone already mentioned, the crowd cheered after every goal and applauded at the end. It was cool....

[DisplacedCornellian]

I went to see it tonight too...not so much reaction from the crowd.  There were probably 20 people in the whole theater...which was surprising to me because there were a ton of people buying tickets.  Apparently everybody was going to see "the perfect score"....silly virginians.

[marty]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Miracle-1129610/

[dss28]

I especially liked the football scene - I found that really moving.