The new and larger statue of legendary hockey coach Herb Brooks is lifted into place in front of the RiverCentre's entrance off Washington Street in St. Paul on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017.

The new and larger statue of legendary hockey coach Herb Brooks is lifted into place in front of the RiverCentre's entrance off Washington Street in St. Paul on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017.

This is about the past, all right, but not the past you had in mind. You think Herb Brooks came back to coach the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team because he’s stuck in nostalgia mode, because ...

Thirty-three years ago, Feb. 22, 1980, the Herb Brooks-coached 1980 U.S. men’s hockey team achieved the upset of the century and defeated the powerful Soviet Union 4-3 en route to winning the… ...

Items from Herb Brooks' time as head coach of the "Miracle on Ice" team are up for auction. (Getty Images) For leading the U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Team to an improbable win over the Soviet Union ...

Some of late coach Herb Brooks's "Miracle on Ice" memorabilia will be auctioned off this weekend in New York, coinciding with the 35th anniversary of Team USA's historic 1980 victory over Russia. ...

On the night the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team reunites at Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, N.Y., to celebrate the 35-year anniversary of the Miracle on Ice, some of the coach Brooks’ mementos from ...

Herb Brooks sat in the living room of the cramped east St. Paul, Minn., working-class house he grew up in and watched the grainy black-and-white images of the 1960 United States Olympic hockey ...

Brooks went on to coach in the NHL — including a brief stint with the Minnesota North Stars — and even returned to coach Team USA to a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.