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| ....The most basic metric is total shot attempts -- the total number of shots a team takes, whether they hit or miss the net or are blocked by the opposition, commonly known in the hockey stats community as Corsi -- specifically those taken when both teams are skating five players a side. It is commonly presented to show possession tendencies. Consider: In all situations, the USSR had 52 shot attempts, while the U.S. recorded just 25 (67.5% of the total attempts). When taking that same statistic and looking at only 5-on-5 situations, the USSR held a 46-21 shot attempt advantage (68.7% shot share). When looking at shots that hit their target, the official box score credited the USSR with 39 total shots on goal, and we determined it had 31 at 5-on-5. The United States? Try 16, and just seven at 5-on-5. We actually classified six of those 16 American shots as dump-ins on goal, too, meaning there were really 10 true shots from Team USA. A ridiculous 71% of shots on goal in the game came from the Soviets, and that number jumped to 81.6% at 5-on-5.... |
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| Running a possession deficit that substantial is not usually going to lead to success, and it's somewhat rare to see. Over the past three NHL postseasons, only five playoff games out of 258 have had a possession disparity as large or larger than what we saw in the Miracle on Ice. |
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| ..Perhaps the more alarming metric is the number of scoring chances the U.S. allowed. According to our manually tracked data, the Soviets accounted for 20 scoring chances at 5-on-5 (unblocked shots that come from within a more dangerous area of the ice). The U.S. counterpunch? We tracked seven total scoring chances during 5-on-5 play for the Americans. Seven. That's it. That means the Soviets owned 74.1% of the scoring chances in the game during 5-on-5 situations but scored on only two of them. The U.S., meanwhile, converted on three of its seven even-strength scoring chances. That's some serious opportunism. |
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| "You know, you watch hockey games today and they shorten their bench, but Herb never shortened our bench," captain Mike Eruzione said during a recent teleconference. "We're playing the Soviets and we're playing [line] one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. [Mark] Wells centered [Phil] Verchota and [Eric] Strobel as a fourth line, and trust me, that was an awfully good fourth line. "In that Soviet game, we would -- in a minute and a half to two minutes -- play all four lines. I mean, you'd be out there for 30 seconds max, 15 seconds sometimes." |
People were so excited as we exited the gate area.
It seemed like a certainty they would beat Sweden for the gold medal.
I was going nuts...what a game...at the end...I went to my balcony screaming, yelling.
On the street, Geschwisterstrolle Strausse, there were many other people yelling, screaming.
I never did find out who those folks were, but it was the good old Cold War, so beating the Russkies, the best hockey team in the world, was special.
For you young folks, back then, there was no internet, no email, not texting and a phone call back to the states cost $10.00 per minute!
Greatest sporting moment of my life, and certainly near the top of my list for great American moments. It had been a very tough decade for many average Americans. It was nice to be on top of something with that win.
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People were so excited as we exited the gate area.
It seemed like a certainty they would beat Sweden for the gold medal.
It was Finland who they beat for the Gold. It was no certainty. They were actually down going into the third period.
I assume they mean only five games had that big a disparity, with the team on the wrong side losing, as opposed to just five games at all. Either way, if it's only five games, kind of annoying they don't list them. Would be interesting to see what they were, especially if some are recent enough that we might remember them.
when they announced USA won, they stopped the game, all the kids through their gloves in the air and we celebrated, parents and spectators, everyone was celebrating. I was 7 years old, had no idea why we were celebrating.
This past Thanksgiving my daughters (12 years old) team played in a tournament at Lake Placid. I'm not an emotional person, like not even a little, but man, being in that village, skating on that ice (there was a team/coaches/parents skate), watching my daughter score a goal on the same ice Eruzione sealed the game vs Russia I felt it. so much emotion (for me).
They had a skills competition and our team took gold in the relay and we won bronze in the tournament. One of the best hockey moments of my life and I wasn't even playing in it.
They had two games on the Herb Brooks sheet (the one where US beat Russia and won the gold), but they played the bronze on a different sheet.
Anyone who has the chance I cannot recommend a visit to Lake Placid highly enough. There are always hockey tournaments up there so if you want to watch youth hockey you're in the right place, but otherwise I'd avoid a tournament weekend. I hear it's great in the summer too - so scenic.
Hard to believe there was an Olympics there. We watched a luge event (world cup) and climbed the practice ski jump "hill".
here is a picture of the bronze medal winners. The Lady Crusaders.
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only five playoff games out of 258 have had a possession disparity as large or larger than what we saw in the Miracle on Ice.
I assume they mean only five games had that big a disparity, with the team on the wrong side losing, as opposed to just five games at all. Either way, if it's only five games, kind of annoying they don't list them. Would be interesting to see what they were, especially if some are recent enough that we might remember them.
I think they meant period not who won - I assumed none of the teams on the lesser end of the disparity won the game. it's ambiguously written though.
HBO also did a great one in 2000 for the 20th anniversary
Absolutely awesome documentary. Showing Slava Fetisov and his kid looking around the old lockeroom gives you goosebumps and really gives a different perspective of the event from the Soviet side.
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Lucky, to be sure (especially when Tikhonov yanked Tretiak for Myshkin), but also a goalie who played out of his mind. Jim Craig played an insane game.
maybe you'd even say it was a miracle.
I will say Jim Craig (USA goalie) and Herb Brooks helped to make their own luck by Craig playing the game of his life, and Brooks with his in-game coaching adjustments that had been a year in the making.
Sort of like the Giants beating the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII.
nice story excpet for 1 thing: there was no WFAN until 1987
here is a picture of the bronze medal winners. The Lady Crusaders.
great pic, pj. Enjoy these days as they do grow up.
If I remember correctly, that was the game where after a late goal, Dave Maloney went to break his stick over the crossbar, missed and instead whacked JD across his achilles tendon. Luckily it was only a severe contusion, no tear or ruptur.
Everyone was really happy.
My son wrote the NYS theme for those Olympics; it was the music played at the passing of the torch in Albany and repeated many times the following weeks. (I recall that Chuck Mangione wrote the national theme).
As a result our family was treated by the state of NY to an all expense paid several days in Lake Placid (during the Olympic Arts Festival the week before the competition.)
An interesting factlett that demonstrates how screwed up NYS was and still is, the performers the state picked to play for the pre Olympic Concert was the Connecticut State Youth Orchestra!
The arrangement for the passing of the torch was a normal band arrangement, but what most likely won my son the award was he also submitted an orchestral arrangement with strings, coral group and rock band . You should have seen the scowl on the face of the conductor of the Connecticut orchestra when he had to call the rock band on stage along with my son for trumpet solo!
For those from Rochester, you might recognize the then out of work, recent Eastman graduate, who was my son's teacher of trumpet and composition, Jeff Tyzek.
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Ramsey is definitely not in the NHL HOF. He was a classic "stay at home defenseman". Good player long career. Maybe USA Hockey HOF.
Almost none of the Miracle on Ice players had great NHL careers, making the Olympic gold even more impressive.
Correct.
People were so excited as we exited the gate area.
It seemed like a certainty they would beat Sweden for the gold medal.
They played Finland for the gold medal.
Amazing stats on this game, really a MIRACLE...
But I disagree on number 2 here, I think the Red Sox come back 3 games down to Yanks is pretty high, maybe number 3... JEST, not so much
I agree that the "Miracle" was the greatest upset by a wide margin. Depending on how you define "greatest," though, I don't think the Jets win falls in the same conversation. It was certainly one of the most unexpected, but if they played the game 10 times, I think a lot of people -- after the fact -- would say the Jets might have won 3 or 4 times, or even more. Joe Namath himself (a biased source) said that his teammates were not impressed with the Chiefs when they watched the film before the game.
The Giants in SB42 falls in the middle. Based on how they fared in the final regular season game, where the Pats won 38-35, I think the Giants might have won 2 out of 10, or maybe more because of the dominant pass rush.
US vs. USSR? Realistically, if they played 10 times I think the Russians would have won 10. The Soviets beat the Rangers 6-0 the season before, and only a few weeks before the Olympics the Soviets beat the US team 10-3. The upset felt like that of a bunch of Russian college kids beating the Golden State Warriors with Curry, Durant & Co. at their peak -- that's how improbable it was.
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Game 1 - Schilling vs Mussina
Game 2 - Pedro vs John Lieber
Game 3 - Arroyo vs Kevin Brown
Game 4 - Lowe vs El Duque Hernandez
Game 5 - Pedro vs Mussina
Game 6 - Schilling vs Lieber
Game 7 - Lowe vs Brown
So the Red Sox suffered through starting Pedro twice, Schilling twice, Lowe twice, and Arroyo once. You got to be clueless to call this series the second greatest upset in sports history. Take a look at these position players.
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"Great" and "almost none".
if that is disparaging, sorry, but I'm not sorry I stand by my words.