Mike Eruzione

And I'm thinking, wow, we are focused and we are ready.

Although I thought we were ready for every game we played, but never in the locker room was it quiet like that.

And then I think the speech, as I said to you, a lot of that stuff he talked about the day before, that I'm sick and tired of the Soviets and everybody talking about them.

I thought they did a great job of combining everything.

And I think the music adds a little to it, too.

And Russell was, I told you, he was amazing as Herb Brooks, although friendlier in the movie.

Yeah, years later.

Because I was a broadcaster for the New York Rangers when Herb was the head coach.

So I got to see a little another side of Herb.

Herb made a choice to coach our team that way.

He was going to be the, it was good cop, bad cop.

Craig Patrick, our assistant coach, was huge, how important he was.

Because Herb stayed away, he was an SOB.

That's the way he was gonna be.

Partly because, again, all the Minnesota guys on the team, if Herb favored the Minnesota guys, it would have created an unpleasant locker room.

But the fact that he was a bitch to all of us,

and was a was a hard demanding coach bonded us even more together because it was always us against against him you know we'll prove you wrong really you're gonna yell at buzzy then you're yelling at me and we understood that that he says he said many times there's a method to my madness but he did say after the olympic games he would have loved to have been closer to that team but choose not to be wow and so he was sacrificing what he wanted emotionally for himself

No, he was just a prick to play for.

John Harrington used to write down, we called them Brooksisms.

Herb would come up with these statements and Harrington would write them all down and we kept them, a book of them.