In Eric Zweig's book, "Twenty Greatest Hockey Goals," Fetisov said the 1980 team was "probably the best team ever put together in the Soviet Union. We never thought of losing, never thought it ...

U.S. hockey team members watch the final minutes of the game as their 4-3 lead holds up to beat the Soviet Union in the Winter Olympic semifinals in Lake Placid on Feb. 22, 1980. Credit: AP ...

The Soviet Union team that the Americans beat was the greatest international hockey team of all time. There's a reason the shocking U.S. triumph in the 1980 Olympics is called a miracle.

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Members of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team recently gathered to celebrate the 35 th anniversary of their glorious victory over the Soviets in Lake Placid, New York.

At the end of the 20th century, when the sports media were compiling lists of the greatest games across the spectrum over a hundred-year period, the U.S. men’s hockey team’s upset of the ...

MOSCOW, — Viktor Tikhonov, the coach of the Soviet Union Olympic hockey team that lost the “Miracle on Ice” game to the United States in 1980, has died. He was 84. Tikhonov guided the Soviet ...

The Soviet Union team that the Americans beat was the greatest international hockey team of all time. There's a reason the shocking U.S. triumph in the 1980 Olympics is called a miracle.

There's a reason the shocking U.S. triumph in the 1980 Olympics is called a miracle. The Soviet Union team that the Americans beat was the greatest international hockey team of all time.

The Soviet Union team that the Americans beat was the greatest international hockey team of all time. There's a reason the shocking U.S. triumph in the 1980 Olympics is called a miracle.