Whatever the reason you had for it, glad you aren't part of the 22 a day, brother.

Good thing for you then USA won. Hopefully, you didn’t watch in ‘84 and ‘88 when the soviets won again.

Awesome story. Thanks for sharing. Peace and blessings.

Makes you believe

For whatever it is worth, the world is better for you being here.

They didn't entirely dismiss his lofty goal. They hired him.

Brooks was actually took a Team USA in April 1979 to the Worlds in Moscow. About half the team were players from the NCAA including Joe Mullen who would go pro over the summer. That team tied the Czechs 2-2 with Craig in net. Brooks took 9 UMinn players, 4 from BU and 2 each from Wisconsin and BG. They had quite a bit of familiarity. That helped them.

agreed.

Which one of the five nominees from that year would you replace?

He really was fantastic in this.

And won

@@possiblepilotdeviation5791 all of them.

Definitely an E F Hutton moment!

How many teams, organizations and workplaces need to hear this speech!

@@ffryan The more important question is how many would even take it seriously if they did hear it.

​@@ffryan It's literally a communist propaganda point. The irony here is these so called "patriots" in this comment section are getting suckered into believing liberal hollywood's traiterous lies under the guise of being "inspirational". Well Stalin was pretty inspirational. He also inspired millions of alive Russians to become dead Russians by starving themselves to death for the glorious name of Communism. This movie is basically Hollywood saying collectivism (communism) is good and effective and individualism (capitalism) is bad and worthless.

@@wthwasthat8884 Really? This is factual statement about team sports in general. A player not doing his own assignment for trying to make a big play could in turn hurt your team. When you are playing in a team sport you are playing as a collective. Stop making idiotic analogies. 330 million people acting as a collective in everything is monumentally different than 20 players for one specific goal.

In one statement, he transformed the gentleman into the follower, complainer, and no-risk character that he is.

Llo

The most American thing said in the room was from a Canadian.

Couldn’t agree more

Damn right!!!

Exactly. "Go out there and play" is the mentality you need in baseball. That is a team sport almost ENTIRELY predicated upon the talent (or lack there-of) of the individual. You can't alter the play of the players all that much to fit within a team system (that is unless you use Bill James and his Sabermetrics.) You can say never bunt and never steal bases, make tactical decisions like that. But ultimately, its the individual that means who wins and who loses. And that individual is almost always standing on the mound. Hockey is completely different. You have to pass the puck. And you have to know someone is going to be there to receive it when you pass it. That is not based on talent. That is based on a system. Where do you want to be on the ice? What options does it give the players when they are where they are? What options should they take? Just go out there and play hockey, that is high school thinking. You would never tell football players (at any level) to just go out there and play. Everything is based on plays and a system and schemes and how the players work together.

You still need the skill to execute. There are tools in hockey just like baseball. Plus skating ability, puck handling, and shooting are absolute skills you need to win at that !evel, get real.

Keep in mind that the Soviets were also professional hockey players. They were technically amateurs because they were all members of the army, but all they ever did was play hockey. The players even called themselves professional hockey players because they were drafted into service just to play

I'm partial to his performance in Tombstone. It's just overlooked by Val Kilmer slaying his role and taking over the film in the process.

@@KYExtemper Agreed. The real Kurt is a little gritty and it shows now and then. People forget that he was an almost big league ballplayer which had to have helped his performance as a coach.

@@peterjeffery8495 that Battered Bastards of Baseball documentary, on Netflix, he did about the team his dad started was amazing.

Kurt & Goldies son was a D1 NCAA Hockey player, so he was a real life hockey Dad.

You read my mind exactly.

Russell was a Hockey Dad. His kid was an NCAA D1 goalie.

If you really want to tear up, watch the very ending of the movie during the dedication where the quote states "He never saw it. He lived it."

Pretty certain Kurt and Herb spent a lot of time together so Kurt can get all the information and ways to accurately portray Herb Brooks in the movie. I believe Herb knew all along Kurt did the best job and was a proud coach again

Herb died between filming and release. All reports had Herb on set for much of the filming.

@@clarkerots9348without a doubt

His record was 219W- 222L. Scotty Bowman is on line 1. Shall I patch him through?

Lurvy1963 he studied both schools of hockey.

They WERE THE BEST PLAYERS. You could maybe argue 2-3 spots on the 1980 Team. However everyone else were the best players available at the conclusion of the 1978-79 NCAA season. Ralph Cox got injured, Langway, Mullen and Nilan were already in the NHL\AHL.

Well lou that’s why I wanna pursue it

Thank you for telling us exactly what we just gathered from the video.

Herb picked winners for this team. Every guy on that team was from a winning championship type team.

@@LiveINtheGood53 well not Eruzione. He graduated in 77 and BU won the national championship in 78 the year after he left but Herb liked his style. He was a grinder and hustler. He had a winner’s attitude and that’s what stuck with Herb.

Jim Craig was a big reason BU lost in the 1977 NCAA Semifinals to Michigan. Gave up a horrible goal to Michigan. Highlights are on KZfaq.

I bet he regretted that move later.

@Gay Frogs maybe in your opinion in my opinion but not everyone's opinion which makes it arguable 😂

@Stem Degree Kevin Ya cause nobody else has ever caused an upset....... American ignorance

@@bobarcher5837 That's why he qualified it with "greatest", you ignorant douche.

@@bobarcher5837 nobody else has ever caused an upset of that magnitude. That's just an actual statement; I might not like America much but its the truth. They took a team of barely adults and managed to beat the most dominant team to ever exist. Its the equivalent of a high school football team beating NFL Allstars in the superbowl.

@@cousinpatsey2471 They were college kids so thats clearly at a higher level than high school kids. I never said it wasn't an upset but a lot of Americans act like its the most amazing thing to ever happen. There have been many other upsets that were arguably greater than this

Lou Nanne never would have said that. That's why Louie never liked the portrayal of him in this movie.

@@tom5848 I've heard that Lou & Herb were friends & if that's the case than I can see why Lou would not have liked this portrayal of himself.

I know this movie makes it sound like soviets were invincible, but Canada beat them in 72 and 76.

Not just that on Paper and in reality 99 times out of 100 the Russian Red Army Team was the Best Team in the World for a long long time. But not that Day

@@peterkyriopoulos2684 But you're still talking about Team Canada. Literally the best NHL players Canada could muster, and the Soviet national team still beat them multiple times in the Summit Series in 1972. It would be like the best college football players beating one of the best NFL teams, and someone saying, "well, this other professional football team beat that team too, so, its not that big a deal". I mean, this was pretty insane for them to pull off.

Yup

That 86 Celtics team was loaded with talent. And if only Len Bias had lived, they would’ve made the Lakers look like the Sparks.

You mean aside from the 85 and 87 Lakers?

He lost with arguably the best US Team at that point in the 2002 Olympics to Canada. Where was his coaching then? USSR was overrated. They hit housed teams giving them a huge advantage. Hit house Team Canada and the USSR might have won 1 Gold Medal between 1960-1980, maybe. As it was, they still lost 2 out of 6 to US amateurs and lost the 1972 Super Series to Canada. What's so phenomenal about that?

@@KMK7355 they beat Russia and lost to Canada in the finals in 2002. and that's bad? you're fucking looney.......... move to Russia you loser

@@KMK7355 he coached the U.S. ONLY in 1980 and 2002. beat Russia both times. won a Gold medal and a silver medal. AND THAT'S BAD? hahahahahahahahahah Brooks was hired as head coach of Minnesota in 1972. He would lead them to three NCAA championship titles in 1974, 1976, and 1979. 3 championships in less than 10 years YOU'RE FUCKING WHACKED. show me another coach who's done this........

@@KMK7355 ASSHOLE.... Brooks only coached 2 Olympic teams. in 1980 and 2002. HR DIDN'T COACH ANY OTHERS!! ONLY THOSE TWO!! AND HE WON GOLD AND SILVER!! DO YOUR FUCKING RESEARCH MORON

He had basically a .500 record in the NHL. He caught lightning in a bottle once, it happens in sports. As far as his NCAA resume, yeah he was an excellent NCAA Coach but he had the most fertile ground to recruit right in his backyard. The best Minnesota HS kids were going there no matter what.

Success has many father's, failures have none. They probably jumped for joy at the win.

Even better than Slap Shot?

@@starguy2718 yep

@@starguy2718 snapshot is a bad movie with a few funny scenes.

That team was literally an NCAA All Star Team from 1978-79.

I believe that he was the Last player cut before the Olympics.

@@anthonykobiec8569 And he was the team captain when they cut him

Herb died before the movie came out

@@Melissa-rt7uu true but he met with cast just prior to filming and was obviously aware who was portraying who in the film.

Why would Brooks give a shit about the actor portraying Nanne? The actor was given a line to read.

And they played with a few of their former American opponents.

The key to an upset boils down to three things. One, the underdog must have some advantage, even an obscure one. The Americans were younger and more eager to win (even if they thought it was a pipe dream). Two, the underdog must have a coach who can exploit that advantage. Brooks trained them hard, until the young players were better conditioned than the Russians, and made them believe their pipe dream was no pipe dream. Three, the favoured contender must make a mistake. The Russians partied the night before (surprising Tikhonov would even consider allowing that), Tikhonov pulled Tretiak after the first period, didn't deploy younger players by the third period, didn't pull Myshkin for an extra attacker. And despite all those mistakes, they lost by just one goal (meaning, had they corrected just one mistake, the Russians would have won).

@@broadstreet21 Pulling the goaltender for Russia destroyed whatever psychological advantage they had. You have to remember this Russia team of all stars embarrassed the USA all stars in an exhibition. Yes it was an exhibition but man they got embarrassed. Fetisov explained what happened. I doubt he partied the night before but can you imagine the frustration Fetisov had to endure during that game. 4 years later Russia won another gold medal so beating Russia was definitely a miracle.

@@euclideszoto997 Tretiak was a negative psychological force on opponents, but Myshkin, even if he lacked Tretiak's psychological force, was still a top goaltender, who I believe beat out NHL all stars. Furthermore, Russia had firepower. Even with an average goaltender, they normally should have won on offense - that should have left them some psychological advantage. That is had the young Americans not been conditioned. And had Tikhonov countered by playing his younger troops, instead of relying on the older ones.

@@broadstreet21 I always got the feeling the coach for Russia panicked. Did he know that these guys partied the night before because like you said he wasn't known for that. If you ever see the interview of Fetisov when he came to the Devils and his story of what happened you can still see a bit of disgust in him. You can definitely tell it is a sour memory.

KZfaq Algorithmic Board of Safety who is Nanne?

@@davidgonzalez2580 In this scene he is the guy who says "That's a pretty lofty goal"

@@davidgonzalez2580 Lou Nanne. He's in the Miracle movie and the guy who plays him is portrayed as hating Herb Brooks and not agreeing with any decision Brooks made. Lou played college hockey at the University of Minnesota, played pro hockey with the North Stars, and was later their GM. He's basically Mr. Hockey in Minnesota.

With all due respect, Nanne was not the reason the 1980 team won the gold metal. Herb Brooks was.

@@KZfaq.Algorithmic.Nonsense nanne was a terrible GM for the north stars look no further than drafting Brian Lawton #1 with Steve Yzerman and pat LaFontaine available. Zach parise should have been out of Minnesota five years ago. Plus nanne is a cake eater from Edina.

Parker's wife died in March 1978. She left behind two young daughters so no way Parker was going to take the job. It was pretty much Brooks job from the end of the 1978 NCAA season.

"Herb, what happened? Herb?! HERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRB!"

Lou said he hated the way they portrayed him. He back Herb fully and pushed for his ideas, as he championed Brooks be named coach.

+J.T. Dutch True. They hired him precisely because they knew if anyone could mold the available talent into a team capable of competing for a gold medal, it was him.

Also, from what I've heard there was little to no talk about "beating the Soviets". They weren't even in the same group, and if they didn't beat the Swedes or the Czechoslovaks they wouldn't get a chance to play them. But of course, they were building to the climax of the film so they had to constantly refer to the 1979 Challenge Cup and show the team watching game film on a team they might never play.

lol bullshit there was no talk about beating the soviets. Did you live during the cold war? Everything was about beating the soviets even if it was never directly mentioned.

Unless they finished in the top 2 teams in their group (which was considered unlikely before the Olympics began) they were not even going to play the Soviets, so talking about a strategy against them was a moot point. I don't remember who it was, but in the aftermath of the movie coming out, one of the players said that was one of the exaggerated points about the movie -- all the talk about the Soviet team. They didn't sit there watching film about them in the middle of the season. Not until they made the medal round and had to face them.

I don't see it as the board members' lack of respect for Brooks. I see it as board members who are just being frank on the situation they're dealing with, money involved with a relatively short amount of time to prepare.

From 1960-1980 the USSR lost 2 of 6 Golds to the US. They lost the 1972 Super Series to Canada and lost to Poland in the 1976 Worlds. What is so phenomenal about that record over 20 years playing lots of punching bags like Japan and Holland? Very goid team aided by being hot housed. If you had hot housed Team Canada NHL 1960-1980 USSR might have won 1 Gold, maybe.

Could be the Flyers were much bigger grown men instead of college kids. But we'll never know

Flyers were goons. They were the only team to beat the soviets largely I’m part to van Impe elbowing the soviets best player. The Canadians tied the soviets and swept the flyers in the finals that year.

@@alwillk the Flyers beat the Soviets because they wouldn't let them into their zone. And by intimidation. They won because they were better.

Nanna was a Canadian, you know that?

Wooden had far more competition in hoop and Brooks never had to deal with the racial issue.

@@KMK7355 The two situations are apples and oranges for a number of different reasons.,

Like it said at the end, he lived it

Did brooks somehow engineer it so we lost so badly to the soviets in the pre Olympic game? Soviet overconfidence was a key part of the miraculous upset

@@prorespluscom The kids didn't play the same way. My opinion is in the first game they were awe struck and didn't play the hard nosed style they did in the olympics. Watch both matches and you'll see the difference.

Paul, Part of it was the US team was set and the US players might have played not to get hurt.

Just learned that he was pissed about how they portrayed him

14 players who got posted to Siberia by the Red Army after losing to Herb's team.