Miracle Page #4

- Must be something in the water.

Get a whistle.

Hold up. Hold up, hold up.

You gotta get back on the ice. Let's go.

- What for?

- You'll find out soon. Come on.

- What for?

- We'll find out in a minute. Come on.

Let's go see what he wants.

You guys don't wanna work during

the game? No problem. We'll work now.

Goal line.

That one.

Hustle.

Think you can win on talent alone?

Gentlemen, you don't have enough talent

to win on talent alone.

Again.

You think you can play

the Norwegian national team and tie them

and then go to the Olympics and win?

You got another thing coming.

You gotta think about something else,

each and every one of you.

When you pull on that jersey,

you represent yourself

and your teammates.

The name on the front is a lot

more important than the one on the back.

Get that through your head! Again.

Win, lose or tie,

you're gonna play like champions.

Again.

Kick it in the ass, Verchota.

Wanna go home early?

Keep it going, Suter. All the way

to the line and all the way back.

It's not that difficult. Again.

Again.

Again.

- Herb.

- What?

The rink manager, he wants

to clean the ice and go home.

Tell him to leave me the keys.

I'll lock up. Again.

Again.

You keep playing this way,

you won't beat anybody

who's even good, let alone great.

If you wanna make this team,

you better start playing at a level

that's gonna force me to keep you here.

Again.

I think we're getting out of here.

Hey. Where you going?

Back on the line.

Again.

Send 'em.

Again.

Again.

Silky, you gonna be

the first to quit on me?

How about you, OC?

You ready to go down?

I think I've got my money

on you, Verchota.

You got a hot date in an hour,

but you're not looking too good

for that right about now, are you?

Send 'em.

Again.

Doc, this is madness, right?

This cannot be a team of common men

because common men go nowhere.

You have to be uncommon.

- Again.

- Herb.

- This has gone on long enough.

- Everybody, on that line.

Somebody's going to get hurt.

Everybody, get on that line.

Hey.

Again.

Again.

Herb.

Come on, Craig. Blow the whistle.

Again.

Mike Eruzione.

Winthrop, Massachusetts.

Who do you play for?

I play for the United States of America.

That's all, gentlemen.

You Minnesotans, my back's

starting to hurt from carrying y'all.

Pretend you're pushing cows.

Stop talking, Boston boy,

and start pushing.

- What you got there?

- Three nines.

Not bad, not bad.

I got two sevens.

We're taxiing out to the runway, right,

and we kind of hit a moose.

No, the moose is fine, but we gotta

make sure the airplane's all right.

So the boys are pushing it back

so these guys can take a look at it.

Patti, the moose is OK.

It ran off. I saw it.

So, what's going on at home?

...between the NHL All-Stars

and the Soviet Union.

She did, huh?

The Soviets dominated

the NHL's best from start to finish,

winning by a score of six to nothing.

The Soviets, led by the superb play

of their captain, Boris Mikhailov,

were superior to the NHL stars

in every way tonight.

Their passing was crisper,

their offense relentless

and their conditioning superb.

No, I'm here. I'm listening.

A six to nothing win tonight.

An embarrassing evening

for the NHL All-Stars.

Russian style of play, boys.

Fluid, creative.

The forwards are constantly circling.

They don't so much look for a man

as a patch of ice.

You get the mismatch.

Two on one. Easy goal.

Looks a lot like me

out there, huh, boys?

Boris Mikhailov.

Captain for the last six years.

He is the best player at his position,

and that includes,

as we've just found out, the NHL.

These guys ever smile?

They're Russians,

they get shot if they smile.

Vladislav Tretyak.

You score on Tretyak, keep the puck.

It doesn't happen often.

Forty-two games in

the last three months. Forty-two wins.

Their main weapon is intimidation.

They know they're gonna win.

And so do their opponents.

Look, I can give you all a load of crap

about how you're

a better team than them,

but that's exactly what it'd be.

Everyone here knows what people

are saying about our chances.

I know it. You know it.

But I also know there is a way

to stay with this team.

You don't defend them. You attack them.

You take their game

and shove it right back in their face.

The team that

is finally willing to do this

is the team

that has a chance to put them down.

NHL won't change their game. We will.

The rest of the world is afraid of them.

Boys, we won't be.

No one has ever worked hard enough

to skate with the Soviet team

for an entire game.

Gentlemen,

we are gonna work hard enough.

Quick feet, boys. Push it.

Work hard, boys.

Strobel, pick up your knees.

Keep your shoulders square.

Push it. Come on, boys. Go.

The legs feed the wolf, boys.

The legs feed the wolf.

Stay with him, Jimmy.

Stay with him, Jimmy.

Damn it!

How's your legs?

I'll let you know

when I can feel them.

Come on, boys.

Go get him. Go get him.

Thattaboy, Jimmy.

Better. Not good, but better.

Pedal to the metal. Intensity, boys.

There you go, there you go.

Work it, boys. Quick feet. Push it.

Tape to tape, boys.

Passes come from the heart.

We wanna stretch things out.

We got the Coneheads on the line.

- Take me through it.

- I stretch the D out and across.

- What do we do with this space?

- I fill the open lane.

- I fill in for Pav's lane.

- Exactly.

That's it, that's it.

Don't let them have it, Jimmy.

Attaboy, attaboy. Yeah!

Build your legs up, boys.

Build your legs!

You'll have nothing left in the third

period if you don't build your legs now.

- What does that give us, boys?

- Options.

All right. Let's run it.

- Let's go.

- What's going on?

We play the Soviets

three days before Lake Placid?

Yeah. How about that?

How about that?

How about that.

Rizzo, you're killing me.

Why can't you find the net?

You've been staring at the same piece

of paper since dinner. Take a break.

How do I cut this kid?

He's done everything I've asked.

So keep him.

I didn't think

it was gonna be this hard.

Yeah, you did.

This isn't gonna work.

I could stick Christian on defense.

I bet that works. Baker.

They stormed the embassy,

overpowered the Marine Guard

and took dozens of American hostages.

Oh, my God.

Herb. Herb.

Turn around and look at this.

...used tear-gas to try to disperse

the mob of Islamic students.

But that wasn't enough.

Hundreds of Iranians

finally overran the embassy compound,

seizing about 90 people,

mostly Americans.

The hostages were blindfolded

and herded into the embassy's basement.

Earlier today the Ayatollah Khomeini...

You gave those guys a good schooling.

How about Johnson and McClanahan?

That works.

They're starting to come together.

- Thanks for coming up.

- I wouldn't have missed it.

- Hey, you beat Harvard.

- Yeah.

I should probably get going.

Yeah.

I love you, Pop.

You too, son.

Jimmy. You keep that glove up.

You got it.

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