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Mike Eruzione, captain of the 1980 gold medal winning U.S. Olympic ice hockey team poses next to the jersey and uniform he wore when the U.S. defeated the Soviet Union in what is known as the "Miracle on Ice" at Heritage Auctions in New York City

Mike Eruzione remembers when US hockey knocked off the Soviets in the ‘Miracle on Ice’

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At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, an underdog US hockey team took on the Soviet Union, considered the world’s hockey powerhouse at the time. US team captain Mike Eruzione scored what would be the winning goal in an upset victory dubbed the “Miracle on Ice.”

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