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Originally Posted by Huysmans
That's exactly my point. It was amateurs.
Was it an amazing display and exhibition of the best hockey skills in the world? Hardly.
The summit series on the other hand was the first major meeting between Canada and Russia, the two world hockey powers....
So its almost impossible to quantify its importance.
Can we call the '80 victory important to the US, especially at the time? Definitely.
If you started a thread asking for the biggest game with socio-political implications....you might have something. Or a thread asking for the biggest upset in sports...then we're in agreement. But to call it one of the GREATEST games period.... it doesn't register on my list.
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If you took a poll of Americans today I think the Miracle on Ice game in 1980 would win in a landslide as the greatest game ever. It was not the Gold Medal game but based on all the factors involved especially the Cold War this game was the greatest game ever.