Sunday, February 22, 2009

February 22, 1980

What a day. Lake Placid, New York, what a city, what a place. I still get goose bumps, and sometimes even fight back a tear hiding as emotional jitters left over from that incredible moment in time. Jim Craig, Mike Eruzione of Winthrop, MA, Coach Brooks, and the rest of that of that squad of college students; Vladislav Tretiak the goaltender whom I was told that the Russian trained by firing pucks out of a canon. I can still hear the voice of Jim Mackay today like it was yesterday. I was 7 years old. My life would never be the same.

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