Mike Eruzione

It's like I said earlier, it's easy to be nice.

It's really hard to be an asshole.

And I live with that.

Well, in the movie, the team was picked in one day.

Trust me, it was two weeks.

And in the movie, they had a bunch of people picking the team.

There was only one person picking this team, and it was going to be Herb Brooks.

So I went to the tryout.

I got invited.

I was on the Great Lakes team.

They divided all these players into four teams, and we competed against each other over two weeks.

And Herb Brooks sat in the stands, evaluated the players, and we were in a room maybe kind of like this, maybe a little bigger, and 68 players tried out for the AD Olympic team.

I shouldn't say that.

Hundreds tried out.

68 got selected.

68 of us went to Colorado Springs, competed against each other in kind of a mini-tournament, and tryouts were over.

26 players made up the AD Olympic team, but only 20 were going to Lake Placid.

Six guys were going to get cut

Well, it was a tournament.

It was competitive.