The Musers- 840; Tripp Brillstein member of the Miracle on Ice team
The Ticket Top 10
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Sam Slayton, CEO and co-owner of Sante Center for Healing. |
| 0:03.4 | We're celebrating 30 years of transforming lives. |
| 0:06.3 | Every day, families call us in crisis, and every day we show them that recovery is possible. |
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| 0:15.3 | Please reach out at santecenter.com. |
| 0:18.1 | It's 841 on a Monday morning with the Musers. |
| 0:23.3 | Everybody's talking about the dramatic U.S. men's team win and Olympic hockey yesterday, beating Team Canada 2-1 in overtime. Well, |
| 0:30.6 | joining us now in the ticket hotline is a member of the last team that won gold for the men at the |
| 0:37.3 | winter games, the 1980 |
| 0:38.8 | Miracle on Ice Team. This is quite a surprise. I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name. Who is |
| 0:44.7 | this with us? You know who this is. Tripp Brillstein. Tripp Brillstein, member of the 1980. |
| 0:50.8 | Yeah, kind of a star of that team if you really want to get down to it. |
| 0:54.2 | Well, we don't necessarily remember Tripp Brillstein. |
| 0:57.1 | Yeah, and I don't see you on the roster. |
| 0:58.7 | Well, I was on the team. I was a late ad, so, you know, it didn't get on a lot of the paperwork. But believe me, I was on the team. I didn't get to do too much on the ice there at the end because the coach had benched me for breaking curfew a couple times that week. |
| 1:12.4 | But I was the best pure stick handler on that team. Wow. Yeah. Mike Ruzzi-e-only, he really idolized me because I could score on a rister from about half a mile away. I was a real all-around player. Incredibly fast scared. I've never heard you talk. I can make it from gold to gold in under a second. Wow. I've never heard you talked about it in any documentary or anything. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, they, stuff's got to end up on the cutting room floor. You know, they can't make it, you know, 12-hour documentaries, you know, but I was a very |
| 1:45.2 | selfless player. I would really stand on my head to win the game at the center. |
| 1:51.0 | Oh, really? I've heard that term before for a center. |
| 1:54.3 | And I think I really, I really, I was like a player's player. They really liked me. They really liked me. They really appreciated me. And, uh, and our coach, I really, and I was like a player's player. They really liked me. |
| 2:01.1 | They really appreciated me. |
| 2:02.7 | And our coach, I really won him over when we first played. |
| 2:06.5 | I remember when we first played the Kazakhstan Olympic team that year, I got the win for us. |
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