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 ...

Jubilant spectators support the U.S. men’s ice hockey team during the infamous semifinal playoff game against the U.S.S.R. at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Coined “miracle on ice ...

A U.S. House of Representatives bill seeks to award the hockey team that defeated the Soviet Union team during at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Famously known as the Miracle on Ice, team USA triumphed over the heavily favored Soviet Union in the medal round of the 1980 Winter Olympics Men's Hockey Tournament.

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 ...

The touring national hockey team of the Soviet Union was scheduled to play against the Rochester Mustangs Dec. 22, 1964, at Mayo Civic Auditorium.

In 1980: The Soviet Union hockey team could not have been more heavily-favored in the 1980 Winter Olympics. Well, you know the rest of the story.

Here's what to know. Why make Jim Craig a bobblehead? Craig is credited with "stopping 36 of 39 shots on goal by the heavily favored Soviet Union in the 'Miracle on Ice' game, as the U.S. won 4-3 ...

This Saturday marks the 45th anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice,” when the U.S. hockey team defeated the Soviet Union 4-3, an unlikely victory that captured Americans' imagination.