Mike Eruzione

Were you starting to get concerned?

Yeah, we were all antsy, wondering, you know, kind of listening.

Is it going to be me?

Is it going to be me?

And it's interesting because now we have the Winter Olympics coming up in February.

The Team USA is going to have 26 players, 25 players.

They carry more now than they did then.

Then they could only carry 20.

So 26 players make up the team, and then we're going to embark on six months of training, and six guys are going to get cut throughout the course of the season.

And you're still up until, I was elected captain in October.

Was this by the players?

By the players.

But I don't think I was voted by the players.

There's no way nine guys from Minnesota voted for a guy from Boston.

Wow.

And as our assistant coach said, we voted, but Herb counted the ballots.

I think Billy Baker was probably named captain by the team because the nine kids played with him at the university.

And Billy actually was the assistant captain of the 80 team.

But for whatever reason, they gave me the captaincy, which was not...

a big deal to me.