Minnesotans are no strangers to the 1980 Olympic team ... winning the nation’s second-ever gold medal in hockey at the Winter Games.

In the follow up edition of The Hockey News, Ken McKenzie wrote a brief mention of the game that holds such a greater meaning in hindsight. From the Feb. 22, 1980 edition of THN: The 32nd annual ...

our nation witnessed a miracle when 20 college and minor league athletes on our U.S. Men’s Ice Hockey Team beat the vaunted Soviet Union Team at the 1980 Winter Olympic games in Lake Placid.