Game Thread: USA USSR 1980 Winter Olympics

[Winged_Wheel88]

On this day, etc etc...

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[dash]

Geez, maybe pulling Tretiak wasn't such a good idea...

 

[Comeds]

Is that where the announcer says something about the crowd being on the pitch?

 

[forty_three]

Geez, maybe pulling Tretiak wasn't such a good idea...

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No matter how stupid my coach and GM will be, you add everything they have done (and have yet to do) to everything that Howson, MacLean and Richards did and you don't get half the stupid that Tikhonov exhibited in that one move.

But thank God he did.

 

[jarntt]

Still remember watching that game. The magnitude of that moment was something you just cannot understand if you weren't around to watch it unfold over the course of those Olympics...

Thank God we beat Finland too...

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Is that where the announcer says something about the crowd being on the pitch?

No, this is the one with the guy saying the band is on the field.

 

[Comeds]

No, this is the one with the guy saying the band is on the field.

Oh yeah, the marching band, er skating band version of "Louie Louie", I remember now.

 

[forty_three]

Still remember watching that game. The magnitude of that moment was something you just cannot understand if you weren't around to watch it unfold over the course of those Olympics...

Thank God we beat Finland too...

Best quote from the documentary was about the Finland game. Herbie's pre game speech for that game consisted of him walking in and saying "You lose this game it will stay with you to your grave" and walking out. He stopped at the door, turned back in and yelled "YOUR FUCKING GRAVE!"

Oh, how I loved Herbie.