The REAL Story behind the Miracle on Ice plus NHL Insider Stories!
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🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Jim Craig tells the real story behind the Miracle on Ice, and then we hear stories from Paul Bissonette and Ray Bourque about their playing days in the NHL!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to games with names. |
| 0:01.9 | I'm Julian Edelman, and we got a brand new compilation highlight reel starting now. |
| 0:08.3 | Now, Jim Craig on the real Miracle on Ice Story. |
| 0:13.3 | How was Herb pregame? |
| 0:15.1 | Like, was he a speech guy, or did he just give you keys? |
| 0:18.4 | Did he rile you guys up? |
| 0:20.3 | Never swore. Yeah. Right? Extremely prepared, right? I mean, in every detail is incredible. But the speech that you hear in the movie Miracle is basically what he did. And he was our confidence. You know what I mean, they're ripe. They're ready to be beaten. You guys |
| 0:37.9 | have earned this, you know, all the things. But he never said you're going to win. So it's really interested in words. When you pay attention to what actually is being said, there is a way to beat this team. You guys have the ability, you know what I mean? But you're not this, you're not going to just do this and beat. I mean, you got to execute. |
| 0:56.2 | You got to do it. Yeah. |
| 0:57.1 | Wait, so the movie speech is actually fairly close? Very close. Yes. Wow. Is that story where he made you guys run after the... Skate. Skate. Sorry, I'm a football guy. |
| 1:13.6 | Skate, when he had you guys skate after the match? |
| 1:14.7 | The Norway game. |
| 1:15.6 | The Norway game. |
| 1:17.0 | How many did you do? |
| 1:19.3 | So the Bart is really interesting. |
| 1:22.2 | This basically talks about trends before they come have it. |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.5 | So Herborks is challenged to just kind of put this in perspectives, right? |
| 1:28.8 | They didn't want them to be a coach. |
| 1:31.5 | They wanted Parker or Billy Clary. |
| 1:34.1 | So he had to convince him to be coach. |
| 1:40.6 | Then the U.S. hockey was okay with preparing to compete, not win. |
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