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Herb Brooks Brooks’ iconic rise in his native home-state of Minnesota. From high school to college to US Olympic teams as a player to a 3-time NCAA Hockey National Champion college hockey coach. Discover how his road in the State of Hockey prepared him to be the best choice to head coach the 1980 Miracle on Ice US Olympic hockey to historic gold in Lake Placid New York 40 years ago.

The 1980 team’s try-out, selection process and 61 game preparation period prior to the 1980 Olympiad in Lake Placid, NY. Home-base for this era was Minnesota, where the team of pure amateurs trained and prepared to play against what was considered the greatest professional hockey team in the world, The 1980 Soviet Red Army team who was waiting in the wings at the 13th Winter Games in Lake Placid.

The team’s scintillating buildup to Olympic play in a tiny ski town in upstate New York called Lake Placid. Re-live the Olympic hockey steppingstones that led up to what has now been called the greatest sporting event of its century. A shocking Miracle on Ice win over the heavily favored Russians which got Team USA to the threshold of Olympic hockey Gold.

With the 1980 team’s stunning victory over the powerhouse Soviet Red Army team in their first medal round game, all that stood between the star-spangled Cinderella team from the United States and an Olympic Gold Medal was a formidable opponent in Finland. The results and what followed were the stuff of which Miracles are made. Episode four also highlights immediate and rare post-game thoughts
and emotions and the 1980 teams visit to White House for their first taste of official stardom.
Experience the poignant reflections of when a team of 20 players disbanded and said good-byes which includes a final farewell to their head coach Herb Brooks.