What do you guys know about the 1960 Olympic Hockey Team?
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The 1960 Men's Olympic Hockey Team won the Gold Medal.  \n\nHerb Brooks (the coach of the 1980 men's Olympic Gold Medal team) was the LAST player CUT from the 1960 team.\n\n2 players from that team were brothers that had the last name of Christian.  They later founded the Christian Bros. hockey supply company, specializing in wood hockey sticks that were very popular with U.S. players in the late 70s, 80s and 90s.  \n\nOne of the founders had a son, Dave Christian, who was one of the best players on the 1980 men's Olympic gold medal team.  Dave also went on to play with Winnepeg, Boston, and Washington in the NHL.\n\nHope this helps...
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The roots of hockey are buried deep in antiquity.\n\nHockey-like games involving sticks and balls have been played for thousands of years by people such as the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Irish, the Scots and the Indians of South America.\n\nHistorical records show that a crude form of hockey was played in Egypt 4,000 years ago, and in Ethiopia around 1,000 BC. Various museums offer evidence that a form of the game was played by Romans and Greeks, and by the Aztec Indians of South America several centuries before Columbus landed in the New World.\n\nThe National Archaeological Museum in Athens holds a square marble slab measuring 60 cm x 20 cm with four bas-reliefs of ancient sporting events. One of these shows Athenian youths playing field hockey. These bas-reliefs date back to 514 BC and show that a type of hockey was being enjoyed in Greece at that time.\n\nThis type of hockey, called "ÊÅÑÇÔÉÆÅÉÍ" (Keritizin) in ancient Greece, was very popular. Called such names as "paganica" by the Romans, "hurling" by the Irish and "shinty" by the Scots, the name "hockie" seems to have been first recorded in Ireland in 1527 and probably comes from the French word "hoquet" meaning "shepherds crook".\n\nHockey in England in the 17th and 18th century consisted of whole villages playing the game with the objective of hitting the ball into the opposing villages' common ground. Teams often consisted of 60 to 100 players and games occasionally lasted several days or so with injuries such as broken arms and legs not uncommon. Umpires could only arbitrate a decision if called upon to do so by a player from one of the teams. (a situation that sounds familiar even in these days!)\n\nIn 1852 the sports master of Harrow, an English Public School, advised his pupils that, among other things, no more than thirty players per team were allowed on the field at any one time. In those early days, team formation consisted of having more forwards than defenders, a situation that persisted up until the late 1800's.\n\nThe game that we know today emerged at Eton College in England in the 1860s when the first rules were written down. Further rules were written in 1875 when the first Hockey Association was formed. The game was played on a field nearly 200 metres in length and all players chased the ball for the whole of the game. In 1886 the Teddington Cricket Club effectively lead a movement which resulted in the British Hockey Association being formed which included amongst its rules a striking circle for hitting goals.\n\nChanges in rules and play quickly developed from this beginning and by 1889 the pyramid system - five forwards, three halves, two backs and a goalkeeper - became the accepted method of playing hockey.\n\nIn 1890 the English, Irish and Welsh hockey associations formed the International Rules Board and umpires were given power to make decisions without waiting for players to appeal for a free hit - something that a large number of players have yet to learn. See 1892 Hockey Rules .\n\nHockey, or "Field Hockey" as it is also known, is now played in every continent with many nations competing in the three major competitions - The Olympic Games, The World Cup and The Champion's Trophy.\n\nHockey was first played at the Olympic Games in 1908 when men's teams were included. Women's hockey was not included in the Olympics until 1980. Hockey was played at the Commonwealth Games for the first time in 1998 (until 1998, the Commonwealth Games were mainly individual sports - swimming, athletics, boxing, etc.. 1998 saw the introduction of four team sports and hockey was one of the four.)\n\nThe first Olympic Hockey Competition for men was held in London in 1908 with England, Ireland and Scotland competing separately. After having made its first appearance in the 1908 Games, hockey was subsequently dropped from the 1912 Stockholm Games, an
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Hockey's origins are indeterminate. Indeed, the very definition of the game is at debate. Some observers accept as hockey any pastime where participants on skates use a club, or other wooden implement, to knock a ball or some such propellant about. Others say an activity cannot be recognized as hockey unless it is a contest between teams and conducted under an accepted set of rules.\n\n\nHunters in the Snow, by Pietr Bruegel (the elder), circa 1565\nCopyright/Source\n   \nAmusements bearing some resemblance to hockey are known to have taken place in Europe as early as the sixteenth century, or even earlier. For example, a painting by Pietr Bruegel (the elder) entitled "Hunters in the Snow" (circa 1565), depicts skaters carrying curved sticks. One of these figures is about to bring his stick in contact with a small object on the ice.\n\nThe earliest skate blades were fashioned from animal bones, but it is known from the journals of Olaus Magnus, the last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden, that polished iron blades were used in the Gulf of Bothnia area in the 1500s.\n\nSome hockey history enthusiasts trace the game's beginning to Mesopotamia, in the third millennium B.C. These historians point to Tablet XII of the Gilgamesh epic (an ancient text from the area that is now Iraq) that shows men employing curved sticks to manipulate a wooden ring over a dirt surface.\n\nRegardless of what these stalwarts along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers or those on the lakes of northern Europe were actually doing, there is no evidence to suggest a progression of their play to a form that can be accepted as structured sport.\n\nResearch points to North America as the region where the idea of a contest on ice took hold and led to the sport we know today. Incarnations of the game are said to have occurred in New York and Newfoundland as early as the late eighteenth century. In recent years, the name of Windsor, Nova Scotia, has come to the forefront as hockey's birthplace. Proponents point to a passage in Thomas Chandler Haliburton's 1843 novel, The Attaché; or Sam Slick in England, as evidence. Sam, a fast-talking Connecticut Yankee, mocks the reminiscences he imagines his traveling companion will have of his childhood at King's Collegiate in Windsor, including "hurly on the long pond on the ice." Critics do not accept this passage as satisfactory evidence, noting that the source in question is a work of fiction. However Windsor's backers argue that the novel is largely autobiographical and that the "hurly" referred to is a direct recollection by Haliburton of what he knew as a youth around 1810.\n\nAnother Maritime entrant in the origins contest is Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Advocates base their argument on an array of events, innovations and developments that sets their claim apart from those of rivals. They note that primitive forms of the game were played on Dartmouth lakes and ponds as early as 1827. The Acadian Magazine in January of that year, for example, contains a poem including the lines: "Now at ricket with hurlies some dozens of boys/ Chase the ball o'er ice with a deafening noise." A newspaper report in February 1867 tells of "a match game called hockey, i.e. ricket" being contested by officers of the Garrison and the Fleet at Oathill Lake. As well, notes the Dartmouth claim, that city was the home of the Starr Manufacturing Company, Canada's earliest producer of ice skates.\n\nFor years, the city of Kingston, Ontario, enjoyed the title of hockey's birthplace. This resulted from a report of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association in 1942, which said that soldiers of the Royal Canadian Rifles played hockey on the harbour ice in 1855. The evidence has subsequently proved suspect and Kingston authorities themselves have rejected the claim, asserting that the game was not introduced there until 1886.\n\n  \nPage from Sir John Franklin's journals and corr
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How about "The Miracle on Ice"  US defeats Soviets.  \n\nHappened in 1980 Winter Olympics
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The Miracle on Ice was on February 22, 1980 as part of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics. There was a subsequent game against Finland which sealed the gold medal.
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Ice hockey is in the winter olympics sice the begining.\nHere a list of the winners : \n\n1920 - Canada (Winnipeg Falcons) \n1924 - Canada (Toronto Granites) \n1928 - Canada (University of Toronto) \n1932 - Canada (The Winnipegs) \n1936 - Great Britain\n1948 - Canada (RCAF Flyers) \n1952 - Canada (Edmonton Mercurys) \n1956 - USSR\n1960 - United States \n1964 - USSR\n1968 - USSR\n1972 - USSR\n1976 - USSR\n1980 - United States\n1984 - USSR\n1988 - USSR\n1992 - Unified Team (Was the name during USSR to Russia transition) \n1994 - Sweden\n1998 - Czech Republic \n2002 - Canada \n2006 - Sweden
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I think there might be more than one answer to this question...what I can tell you is a fact is that Canada achieved that feat in 1986 they lost 1-0 to France in their first game,2-0 to Hungary in the second game and 2-0 to Russia in their third.
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I'm a Pittsburgh Penguins fan! I think they should've done much better with Sidney Crosby, Lemieux healthy, Gonchar, Leclair, and Zigmund Palffy. They should be one of the elites now.
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they need real goal tending! i was embarsed to see them trade Abby to montreal for Theodore, Abby kept Switserland in the olympics far longer than they should have been and Theodore has been run out of the net more often than France out of Paris. So bad that they took to starting Huet on a regular basis, sucker trade, but the fans in Colorado want a name to replace Roy and Jose has won a Vesnia.
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Miracle.  (the one about the 1980 US Olympic hockey team.)
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Well, I can't really imagine that you are satisfied with the wide array of responses up above as neither they really address the question or even attempt to back it up whatsoever.  So here it is:\n\nThere has and always will be a debate over who is the greatest NHL team of all-time.  If you are wondering what has been the winniest franchise throughout history, it would be the Montreal Canadiens, who have won 24 Stanley Cups since 1917 when the NHL began it's official operations.  Next closest is the Toronto Maple Leafs with something like 12, but who really cares because they haven't won it since like 1967 and probably never will again at the rate that they are going.\n\nBut the best team of players ever assembled.  If you would like to read what Sports Illustrated's Tom Layberger has said on the subject, go to this link:\n\nhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/tom_layberger/03/01/dominant.teams/\n\nHe lays out the top 10 teams of all-time in great detail.\n\nIf you want my opinion and likely anyone else with half a hockey brain to name the best team of all-time it would have to be the Edmonton Oilers between 1983-1984, 1984-1985.  They were stacked:  \nGrant Fuhr - a stone wall of a goalie, \nMark Messier - A solid skating, shit-kicking centre, \nGlenn Anderson - high speed winger, \nPaul Coffey - arguably to this day the greatest defenceman of all-time, \nKevin Lowe - current GM of the Edmonton Oilers, \nEsa Tikkanen, Old school version of Ville Nimmenen - annoying Finn player who scores goals and plays cagy defence, \nJari Kurri - the all-time leading Finnish points leader, who ALWAYS found the back of the net in clutch times,\nAnd all coached by Glen Sather - a revolutionary coach who demanded the best of his players and competed to always win.\n\nI am of course omitting one name:\nWayne Gretzky is undisputably the greatest NHL hockey player of all-time.  "The great one" holds more hockey scoring records than entire other teams combined.  Entire pages have been re-written into the record books and there they will remain in stone as they will never be broken.  His single season record of 212 points in a season will likely never be broken; 50 goals in 35 games is completely untouchable, and the fact is, he managed to amass these massive point totals over years and in clutch times in the playoffs as well.\n\nGretzky revolutionized hockey in a way that one way ever has before.  His quote:  "Well, I think an assist is just as good as a goal." is often repeated in minor hockey arenas.  His idea of using the boards, behind the net, other players' skates/bodies is completely unparalled.  He was fast, had a deadly accurate shot, and made behind the back passes while looking the other way to teammates who were practically too stunned to do anything about it.\n\nI saw Gretzky once score a goal right off the face-off.  That's how good he was.  I remember when he used to shoot the puck down the ice like it was icing, only to see it bounce in a funny way off the boards and straight to Jari Kurri for an easy tap-in.  Dude, Gretzky was seriously ridiculously good.  \n\nNow, the Edmonton Oilers won the cup 4 out of 5 years, between 83 and 88, although interestingly lost out in the 1985-1986 season in one of the most famed playoff series of all-time:\n  \nIn game 7 in the opening round against their arch-rivals The Calgary Flames, with 2.4 seconds left, Steve Smith (a defenceman for the Oilers) skated around the net in his own zone and in a completely harmless play accidentally passed the puck into his own net!  This play has been re-shown and re-played probably 1,000,000 times to hockey fans everywhere and became fashionable to say:  "To pull a Steve Smith."  The fans went nuts of course, and so did the media who of course expected the Oilers to coast to an easy 3rd straight Stanley Cup.\n\nAnd do you know how classy Wayne Gretzky is?  He said to the media, to the fans, to the
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Because the Russians that year were heavily favored and were world renowned as one of the most competitive and skilled hockey teams ever. The country devoted millions into developing a hockey team that could crush anybody they faced...and they did just that until they faced the Americans in the Gold medal match. \nBy contrast, the American team was made of college kids and relatively unexperienced players who had never competed in that big of a game before. They were still a good team, but nobody thought they had a chance against the Russians. Think of it as how Rocky beating the Russian, Ivan Drago in Rocky IV was a big deal.
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The was also something called the "Rover" who played between the forwards and defencemen. I remember reading this after wondering why the early Ottawa team was called the "Silver Seven" not six. In those days you were not allowed to pass the puck forward(kind of like rugby), the Rover was a fast guy who could carry the puck up ice, as well as get back fast to help in his own end. When the game moved indoors in the 1920s this position was dropped due to the size of some arenas.
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All the way, through and through.\nWhat better memory then "The brawl in Hockeytown"?\n\nGot a real shot this year....\n\nDid you know that the last two times there was a "Olympic break" that the Red Wings won the cup?
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The Hamburg Blue Devils\n\nhttp://www.lakeland.edu/Athletics/MuskieNews.asp?article=1798
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THEY DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER!!!!!!\n\nI'm from Chicago and I remeber  when there was only six teams. Here is the story. Disney is big or the biggest thing in Anahiem. The Mighty Ducks was a great Disney movie. It was a great Disney marketing move to name the team after the movie.\n\nNow the new owners of the team plan look into a name and uniform change. But Anahiem or Los Angeles are not hockey towns. \n\nGoing to a Hockey game is an option here.  Maybe the fans in Organge County don't feel like driving to Hollywood today. Maybe they don't want to be on the always crowded freeways? Maybe somebody forgot to reserve a tee time? The surf conditions are bad?\n\nLook forward for this team to move to Portland or Houston.  They have to move the Penguins, so the Ducks are next.\n\nWhen you think of hockey towns, you think of the original six cities, and St Louis, Minnesota, and Philadelphia. These are great hockey towns. They are followed by Buffalo, Denver, and the other Canadian cities. Anahiem?? Please give me a break. You won't miss the team if it moves away.\n\np.s. SO CAL has a very successful ECHL team in LONG BEACH. I think they draw about 2,000 per game.  SO CAL is not a HOCKEY area. Currently heading out to get a JACK DANIELS LATTE or a BEER Slurpee.
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Head over to the IOC Olympic Games website... and you would have the following list... You can even jump around the years and find out some interesting facts and figures. As well as results from all of the games. \n\nSUMMER: Athens 1896; Paris 1900; St. Louis 1904; London 1908; Stockholm 1912; Antwerp 1920; Paris 1924; Amsterdam 1928; Los Angeles 1932; Berlin 1936; London 1948; Helsinki 1952; Melbourne 1956; Rome 1960; Tokyo 1964; Mexico City 1968; Munich 1972; Montreal 1976; Moscow 1980; Los Angeles 1984; Seoul 1988; Barcelona 1992; Atlanta 1996; Sydney 2000; Athens 2004; Beijing 2008; London 2012\n\nWINTER: Chamonix 1924; St. Moritz 1928; Lake Placid 1932; Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936; St. Moritz 1948; Oslo 1952; Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956; Squaw Valley 1960; Innsbruck 1964; Grenoble 1968; Sapporo 1972; Innsbruck 1976; Lake Placid 1980; Sarajevo 1984; Calgary 1988; Albertville 1992; Lillehammer 1994; Nagano 1998; Salt Lake City 2002; Torinio 2006; Vancouver 2010