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'Marvel On Ice': When The US Olympic Hockey Team Stunned The World 

The Soviet hockey group, driven by an iron drape of a goaltender named Vladislav Tretiak, was the reasonable top choice to get back the gold at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. The Soviets had won each of the four of the past Olympics and had beaten the USA in every one of the 12 face-offs somewhere in the range of 1960 and 1980, outscoring the Americans 117-26. 

Simply seven days before the 1980 games, in a show game played at Madison Square Garden, the USSR pummeled the USA 10-3. The whole hockey world anticipated that the Soviets should effortlessly skate their way to another gold. 

However, that is not what occurred, obviously. In an epic semi-last match that got known as the "Marvel on Ice," an American crew made out of capable however untested school players outflanked and outscored the powerful Soviet hockey machine.  사설토토

"A portion of the folks in the Soviet group were players that ought to have been NHL stars," says Kevin Allen, a veteran hockey columnist for USA Today. "For a lot of American players directly out of school to come in and beat them was major. Sports Illustrated considered it the 'best games snapshot of the twentieth century' and I'd need to agree."