Mike Eruzione

That's all it said.

And I was like, wow, that's cool.

So that went up on the wall.

And a lot of telegrams would come to individual players, family, friends, and some just to the team in general.

And it was a great way to spend, you know, you come to practice and it'd be telegrams.

You'd open up and read it and put it up on the wall.

So we're walking out of the locker room onto the ice and that wall of telegrams.

So we knew people were watching from afar, but nowhere did we have an idea the world was watching the way they were.

So that was kind of motivating for us as a team.

And then we went out and obviously beat the Soviets four to three.

And two days later, we had to play Finland.

Just the emotion in the locker room.

See how quiet it was?

It was deadly quiet.

Our locker room was never quiet.

Guys would be eating hot dogs before the game.

Like I said, Neil Broughton, 18 years old, he'd have a slice of pizza before he'd go on the ice.

And I'm sitting there, how can he eat anything like that?

But this game here...

I remember walking in the locker room, how deadly quiet it was.