The new Miracle on Ice documentary on Netflix is really good

[zuck698]

I was a bit worried this has been played to death in the documentary world and with the Miracle movie. I loved everything I just mentioned.

So glad I was wrong. This is so worth the watch. It's a very new and fresh perspective on the team. SPOILERS coming to an extent about the show itself, pretty sure we all know the results of the games but if you haven't watched you may not want to read on.

I liked how they gathered the living members at Lake Placid and showed them all kinds of video of the events. The things that I learned or noticed that I've never seen before.....the fire station across from the Russian consolate in NYC put the banner up with the final score And then if you watch the gold medal ceremony closely the level of respect shown by the Finns was great. They were smiling, applauding etc. Even a few of the Russians can be seen smiling and or/applauding. Finally, it was nice they included Herb Brooks kids in the interviews. That was a cool perspective.

Highly highly rec this documentary.

I read once that after the Soviet game a lot of the players were just in awe at how excited the US players were, and they were genuinely happy for them.

Fun fact that most may not remember. The game was not shown live to a large portion of the country (St Louis included) we saw it on tape delay later

Yep. In the original documentary it was made clear the USSR would not agree to move the start time. It was the first time anything was ever spoiled in my life (other than my Mom's cooking when I was a kid)..........buddy of mine called and said "did you hear we beat the Soviets." Pretty sure my response was F you followed by click.

To the poster who pointed out the stuff about McLanahan's thigh injury and Brooks reaction to it, yeah, great call and comments. Miracle covered that so well.

I wonder if Miracle took any liberty with O'Callahans knee injury? Was that an actual thing? It wasn't mentioned in this new doc.

I don't think it was mentioned because it wasn't a big part of the story I don't think. The movie was playing up Herbs angle of being the last guy cut. The doc covered that segment with Cox. I think because the movie kept that scene a little quicker, they had to add a couple other things in since they clearly wanted to cover there. Cox really hammered it home. Herb broke down and couldn't talk in that meeting. Cox had to do some of the talking for him. That's crazy. The even cooler part which I'm confused a bit about is they were trying to create a position for him to coach or something so he could go?

anyways, bummer for those of you that could witness it and people spoiled it. that would be an all time sporting event that I'd be holding onto. My question is, what was it like watching that stuff on TV? Hockey was already brutal in the late 90s early 2k on TV. I don't think the cast has really upped it's game until the last 10-15 years. The TV product today is infinitely better than it was 20 years ago. I can't imagine what it was like in the 80s.

The quick answer is that is was horrible quality compared to today's standards. But at the time, we didn't know any better and we had no other options, so the tv coverage quality really wasn't an issue. It is similiar to the old saying, "we were poor, but we didn't know it." If that makes any sense?

[Blues Dave]

Miracle was just too amazing. I'll definately watch the new Doc. Obviously the Blues Cup win was #1 for me.

[callitwhatyouwant]

I was a bit worried this has been played to death in the documentary world and with the Miracle movie. I loved everything I just mentioned.

So glad I was wrong. This is so worth the watch. It's a very new and fresh perspective on the team. SPOILERS coming to an extent about the show itself, pretty sure we all know the results of the games but if you haven't watched you may not want to read on.

I liked how they gathered the living members at Lake Placid and showed them all kinds of video of the events. The things that I learned or noticed that I've never seen before.....the fire station across from the Russian consolate in NYC put the banner up with the final score And then if you watch the gold medal ceremony closely the level of respect shown by the Finns was great. They were smiling, applauding etc. Even a few of the Russians can be seen smiling and or/applauding. Finally, it was nice they included Herb Brooks kids in the interviews. That was a cool perspective.

Highly highly rec this documentary.

I read once that after the Soviet game a lot of the players were just in awe at how excited the US players were, and they were genuinely happy for them.

Fun fact that most may not remember. The game was not shown live to a large portion of the country (St Louis included) we saw it on tape delay later

Yep. In the original documentary it was made clear the USSR would not agree to move the start time. It was the first time anything was ever spoiled in my life (other than my Mom's cooking when I was a kid)..........buddy of mine called and said "did you hear we beat the Soviets." Pretty sure my response was F you followed by click.

To the poster who pointed out the stuff about McLanahan's thigh injury and Brooks reaction to it, yeah, great call and comments. Miracle covered that so well.

I wonder if Miracle took any liberty with O'Callahans knee injury? Was that an actual thing? It wasn't mentioned in this new doc.

I don't think it was mentioned because it wasn't a big part of the story I don't think. The movie was playing up Herbs angle of being the last guy cut. The doc covered that segment with Cox. I think because the movie kept that scene a little quicker, they had to add a couple other things in since they clearly wanted to cover there. Cox really hammered it home. Herb broke down and couldn't talk in that meeting. Cox had to do some of the talking for him. That's crazy. The even cooler part which I'm confused a bit about is they were trying to create a position for him to coach or something so he could go?

anyways, bummer for those of you that could witness it and people spoiled it. that would be an all time sporting event that I'd be holding onto. My question is, what was it like watching that stuff on TV? Hockey was already brutal in the late 90s early 2k on TV. I don't think the cast has really upped it's game until the last 10-15 years. The TV product today is infinitely better than it was 20 years ago. I can't imagine what it was like in the 80s.

The quick answer is that is was horrible quality compared to today's standards. But at the time, we didn't know any better and we had no other options, so the tv coverage quality really wasn't an issue. It is similiar to the old saying, "we were poor, but we didn't know it." If that makes any sense?

it for sure does. I just remember there was a time where it was a very common saying that you had to go to a hockey game to properly experience it. Yes, you could still make that argument, but it's not because you can't tell the speed and skill in the game on TV. Now because the puck is so easily identifiable and they don't have to do gimmicks like laser trackers, it's a pretty fun sport to watch from the Tube. It was definitely a distance 4th behind the big 3 in the states. At least that's my opinion, and the team I loved the most first was the Blues. So that's a tv watching kid, who went to games. Just very easy to see where people who don't know what's happening and where the puck is going would have a hard time following the sport.