Miracle on Ice Team Signed Hockey Framed Photo, (16"x20")
The Soviet hockey team, led by an iron curtain of a goaltender named Vladislav Tretiak, was the clear favorite to bring home the gold at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. The Soviets had won all four of the previous Olympics and had beaten the USA in all 12 face-offs between 1960 and 1980, outscoring the Americans 117-26.
Just a week before the 1980 games, in an exhibition game played at Madison Square Garden, the USSR walloped the USA 10-3. The entire hockey world expected the Soviets to easily skate their way to another gold.
But that's not what happened, of course. In an epic semi-final match that became known as the "Miracle on Ice," an American squad composed of talented but untested college players outplayed and outscored the mighty Soviet hockey machine.