Nobody Wins a Miracle Alone

On February 22, 1980, twenty American college hockey players faced a Soviet team that had dominated Olympic hockey for nearly two decades, winning four consecutive gold medals. Just thirteen days earlier, those same Soviets had demolished the Americans 10-3 in an exhibition at Madison Square Garden. Coach Herb Brooks had assembled these young men — average age just twenty-one — not for individual stardom, but because they played for one another.…