30 Years Later: Remembering the Miracle on Ice 6
The Massachusetts Miracle Men with BU official(middle).
The world was in a state of turmoil. The Cold War was at epic heights between the Soviet Union and the United States.
America was secretly funding the Afghan rebels to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan.
There was no love loss between the two countries whether it was world affairs or on the ice.
The 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York was not just an international athletic competition, but a showing of superpower muscle.
And a band of collegiate hockey players from the Midwest and New England, were David trying to take down the Soviet Goliath.
Jim Craig, Mike Eruzione, Dave Silk, and Jack O’Callahan grew up playing hockey on rinks in the Boston area.
Jack O’ Callahan hailed from Charlestown, Mass.
Jim Craig called North Easton home.
Mike Eruzione grew up in Winthrop.
Dave Silk was raised in Scituate.
These four sons from the Bay State all attended Boston University, one of the country’s collegiate hockey powerhouses which was coached by the now legendary, Jack Parker.