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Originally Posted by Huysmans

Maybe its because I'm Canadian, but the 1980 US victory has never meant much to me.

If you're not American, you won't get it. That game was a combination of so many things for the US - a bad economy putting the whole country into a funk, the Iranian Hostage situation, the general feeling the US was losing its place as a superpower, anger at the Soviets over the invasion of Afghanistan, a lot of myth-making that the Soviet hockey team was (not necessarily wrongly) considered unbeatable, and so on. And most of that stuff simply isn't going to resonate with a Canadian. For Americans, though, that game was something incredibly special. Of course, most Americans still think it was for the gold medal...