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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The hockey events at the 1980 Olympics ... a 4-2 victory over Soviet Union, with Davinder, Surinder, Mohammed Shahid and Maharaj Kaushik scoring a goal each. The Indian team finished second ...

In reality, though, this battle was going to take place on the ice. The touring national hockey team of the Soviet Union was scheduled to play against the Rochester Mustangs Dec. 22, 1964 ...

The underdog United States Olympic hockey team, coached by taskmaster Herb Brooks, defeated the seemingly-invincible Soviet Union 4-3 in the ... a boycott of the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow ...

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.