Mike Eruzione

Billy Baker scores arguably the biggest goal of the Olympics with 28 seconds left to go we tie Sweden 2 to 2 and It was a huge point because nobody thought we could beat Sweden at the end of the game.

then basically there's no way you're going to make the medal round yeah it would have been really hard because that was a big point for us to get yeah so we we tie sweden we get a point next day is the opening ceremonies which was incredible next day's czechoslovakia the only team that anybody thought could beat the soviets and we blow them out we beat him seven to three now everybody's talking about the us hockey team you can't go anywhere you can't talk to anybody the good thing was there was no media

There was no Facebook and stuff like I told you earlier.

So we didn't know what was being written.

And we were in a little village in Lake Placid, which is about the size of this church.

And, you know, we beat them.

Then we beat Norway.

Then we beat Romania.

Then we beat West Germany.

And now we're in the medal round.

That was our goal.

Get to the medal round.

And as it turned out, we were second in our division because Sweden had a better goals for and goals against.

So it's a crossover.

Number two plays number one.

Obviously number one on the other side was the Soviets.

They were averaging seven goals a game.

They beat Japan 16 to nothing two nights earlier.

Wow.

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