Mike Eruzione
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Like I said, if it got to be 4-2 them, the game's over.
Because now we've got to chase them.
Now we've got to change the way we want to play.
The fact that the game stayed the way it was going... Because you were never down two goals in the game.
No.
We were never down...
You know, I'll give you a statistic that I didn't know about until a couple of years ago.
In the third period of the Olympics, the third period, we outscored our opponents 16 to 3.
That is unheard of.
We gave up three goals in the third period.
All tournament long.
Wow.
We didn't give up any to Finland.
We didn't give up any to Sweden.
And we didn't give up any to the Soviets.
I think that was conditioning.
Mindset.
Conditioning.
I think conditioning was a big part of our success.
We played four lines.