Thirty years ago at Lake Placid, the United States hockey team shocked the world by defeating the Soviet Union powerhouse and winning the gold one game later. Nobody even expected the team to medal.
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Being a group of college kids with an average age of 20-years-old, they were an afterthought as the tournament began.
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At the 2010 Olympics, we we were given our own version of an American dream team that could make us believe.á
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Like the 1980 U.S. team, this group was the youngest team in the tournament, with an average age of 25. With teams like Canada, Russia, and Sweden, the U.S. team was expected to finish well out of the medal race.á
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The NHL had even scheduled them to fly home Sunday morning ùwell before the gold medal game à...
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2010 Winter Olympics: USA/Canada Hockey Gives Us Another Chance to Believe
Posted: 2nd March 2010 by Jordan Cannelis in NHLComments Off on 2010 Winter Olympics: USA/Canada Hockey Gives Us Another Chance to Believe