With the World Cup of Hockey upon us, it's a good time to examine the question of which international team was the best in history. There's really only one answer: the 1980 Soviet Union team.

Saturday marks the 45th anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice,” when the U.S. Hockey Team defeated the Soviet Union 4-3 in Lake Placid, N.Y., during the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, en route to ...

Russia men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake ... during the Olympic hockey game against the Soviet Union. U.S. hockey team members sitting on the bench watch the action ...

Matthew Impelli is a Newsweek staff writer based in New York. His focus is reporting social issues and crime. In January 2023, Matthew traveled to Moscow, Idaho where he reported on the quadruple ...

On Feb. 22,1980, the United States men's Olympic hockey team shocked the international juggernaut Soviet Union and the rest of the world with a 4-3 win in the medal round. Two days later ...

With the World Cup of Hockey upon us, it's a good time to examine the question of which international team was the best in history. There's really only one answer: the 1980 Soviet Union team.

With the World Cup of Hockey upon us, it's a good time to examine the question of which international team was the best in history. There's really only one answer: the 1980 Soviet Union team.