Herb Brooks dead

[Dozerdog]

Coach known best for 1980 hockey gold
ESPN.com news services

http://espn.go.com/classic/obit/s/2003/0811/1594173.html

MINNEAPOLIS -- Herb Brooks, who coached the U.S. hockey team to the "Miracle on Ice" victory over the Soviet Union at the 1980 Olympics, died Monday in a car wreck. He was 66.

Brooks led that team that won the gold medal in Lake Placid, N.Y., at the height of the Cold War. He returned to lead the 2002 U.S. Olympic hockey team to a silver medal.


Herb Brooks won Olympic gold and silver, three NCAA titles and 219 NHL games.
The Hall of Famer was killed when his minivan rolled over north of the Twin Cities near where Interstate 35 splits toward Minneapolis and St. Paul, police said. The weather didn't appear to be a factor.

[redeye5]

To all on this Board: Where were you when we won the gold in 1980 ?

[redeye5]

I'll Start it off...I was at one of my Dad's hockey games at Lakeshore rinks in the proshop when the game came on ABC, I was 7 years old and I'll never forget it when we won and everyone came off the ice in my Dads' game and crowded in the proshop to witness this "miracle on ice". They finished playing their game and all the guys on the team along with my Dad went out to The Distillery. It was my first time in a Bar and I had my First beer too a Labatt Blue

I'll never forget it....

[Dozerdog]

I was 13, watched the game in the afternoon ( on canadian TV I think)

then watched it again at night!

ABC carried the game in the evening, and all through the telecast Jim McKay kept teasing you with "Stay tuned for the exciting game" while being very careful not to divulge the score. This was pre internet and pre- 10,000 new sand sports channels on TV- so it wasn't hard to keep the score secret.

I remember Irv Weinstein of Ch 7 news saying on the Eyewitness news promo, which aired sometime around the end of the second period "The USA Scores the upset- film at 11" but the taped game wasn't over yet!

Man were a bunch of people pissed.

[redeye5]

Yes thats right Canadian TV did carry the game live(and they still do to this day).
We lived in Rochester at that time and had to see it on WOKR channel 13 (ABC) (Taped of course). Boy did ABC drop the ball on that occasion... Almost as bad as when they hired Dennis Miller for Monday Night Football....Awful...

[Earthquake Enyart]

I was in college.

[Valerie]

I don't think I paid any attention to hockey at all back then. I don't remember the game at all. I remember all the hype after we won, but that's about it.

Regarding Herb Brooks, I heard about it on the radio this morning. I just heard Brooks died in a car crash, so I thought they were talking about Albert Brooks. Thanks for clearing that up, Dozer. :)

[Earthquake Enyart]

I thought it was Mel Brooks.

Thanks dozer.

[Ebenezer]

The Soviet game: We went out for a fish fry, the game was in the second period. They did not have it on in the place we went (I think it was the Deerhead)...We came home to find out they won (kind of anti-climatic)...

The Finland game: I was home. We played roller hockey in my basement between periods and some of the early third.

DYK that as of 2000 the 20 players from that team had never been in the same place at the same after meeting Reagan in March 1980??

[Sabre Ally]

Um...I was only 8, and I lived in the Land of no Hockey...Nebraska. I didn't even know what hockey was.

EE...nice sig.

[Twistmyarm]

I met old Herb when I was playing college hockey, he was friends with my coach. He was a great guy and ate slept and breathed the sport we all love.

It's a great loss, but the good thing about heaven is you can always hit the "Five Hole Shot" and St. Peter has a weak glove hand, so I'm sure old Herb is scoring at will!

[yle]

I was in Kindergarten. I was probably trying to take a nap on some girls rug. :pimp:

[Dozerdog]

I thought it was Brooks & Dunn...


Thanks Dozer!

[yle]

Originally posted by Dozerdog
I thought it was Brooks & Dunn...


Thanks Dozer!