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1980 USA hockey team members ‘Run Back the Miracle’ in Lake Placid reunion
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The final day of next month’s Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina will mark 46 years since arguably the greatest sporting upset of all time.
On Feb. 22, 1980, amateur hockey players from the United States shocked the world when they defeated the Soviet Union, 4-3, in what has been known as the “Miracle on Ice.”
Nearly 46 years later, captain Mike Eruzione, goalie Jim Craig, leading goalscorer Mark Johnson and play-by-play announcer Al Michaels were back at what is now called Herb Brooks Arena to “Run Back the Miracle.”
(L-R) Mark Johnson, Jim Craig and Mike Eruzione visit their locker room from the “Miracle on Ice.” (Michelob Ultra)
Powered by Michelob Ultra, the event reimagined pivotal moments from the legendary U.S. Olympic men’s ice hockey team victory using high-definition holograms, full-surface ice projection and historic footage, allowing fans to relive the magic of one of the most celebrated moments in sports history.
“What we’re able to do here is we’re able to relive the moment that we never had a chance to do. When the Olympics ended, you know, I think in five days, I was playing in the National Hockey League. So was Mark Johnson,” Craig said in an interview with Fox News Digital hours before Thursday’s event. “We just, all of a sudden, we were on a team, and we were just gone. And so, this is going to be great. We’re going to relive years of experience. It’s going to bring back this memory to different generations.”
For Michaels, whose famous call has carried on for generations, it was just his third time back in Lake Placid since those Olympic Games.
Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig, and Mark Johnson take part in the “Run Back the Miracle” celebration in Lake Placid, New York on Jan. 15, 2026. (Michelob Ultra)
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“I mean, I can feel it. I can just feel it in my bones, my fiber to walk back into this building, even though when obviously it’s been remodeled and refurbished, but I can still remember that night and 1980,” Michaels said.
The “Miracle on Ice”, where today’s famous “U-S-A” chant was born, was much more than a hockey game, as global tensions were sky-high amid the Cold War. For Craig, that made it that much more important to represent the Stars and Stripes.
“Some of us were lucky enough to play in the World Championships in 1979 in height of the Cold War, and the games were in Moscow. So we really saw how the USSR back then utilized sport as propaganda. To me, it’s not about politics, but you can’t help but get some of those in there. It’s really about pride of being and representing your country, right? And understand that brand is more important than you,” Craig added.
Michaels has been on the mic for probably thousands of games since then. But his final words while sitting next to the late Ken Dryden are saved only for when necessary.
Miek Eruzione walks onto the ice at Herb Brooks Arena. (Michael Ultra)
“If I do [say ‘miracle’], then people think, ‘Hey, there he is, you know, patting himself on the back.’ No. I’m very careful when I use that word,” Michaels joked.
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The faulty hydrants after a recent fire in Waterbury are raising questions about how they’re maintained and what the guidelines are.
“It was horrific, because I was sleeping and I was woken out of my sleep,” Michele Philips, a neighbor, said.
It was a scary situation for her, seeing her neighbor’s home on fire on Bennett Street early Tuesday morning, and it was even more frightening when she saw the firefighters struggling to get a nearby hydrant to work.
“No water came out of it at all,” she said.
City officials say multiple hydrants had water flow issues before firefighters found one that was working properly on a different street farther away. That caused a 20-minute delay and is leading to concerns in the community.
“If that happened to us, what would have happened to my own house, and say if the fire had spread,” Philips said.
Waterbury Mayor Paul Pernerewski said the issue likely stemmed from debris stuck in pipes more than 100 years old.
“We have very old pipes underground that eventually build up residue inside that slows the flow,” he said.
“Hydrants have about a 100-year lifespan. So there are a lot of hydrants, especially in your big four cities in Connecticut that are old,” Fire Chief Dan Coughlin with the New Haven Fire Department said.
Coughlin explained that hydrant maintenance varies by location, with no state law requiring a specific number of checks on public hydrants.
“It’s based on their needs, their manpower, for example, as well. So it’s different,” he said.
Coughlin said that in New Haven, hydrants are checked twice a year…and they work with their regional water authority for pressure testing.
“We flush them, we make sure we have good flow coming out of them. We don’t put a gauge on it to see the exact number that we’re getting out of there,” Coughlin said.
The National Fire Protection Association recommends hydrant flow tests every five years. Pernerewski said that he wants to go above that standard. Right now, city workers flush all hydrants every year, but he says they’ll also focus on water pressure testing after realizing that it hadn’t been done for over a decade.
“We’ll now have two folks who can go out and do the testing as well, and we can test while we’re flushing,” he said.
Along with water pressure testing, the mayor said he’s working with the fire department to bring back a color code indicating the pressure at each hydrant.
“Anything 1,500 gallons a minute or higher was painted blue. Green was for those between 1,000 and 1,500, and then red was for those 700 or less,” Pernerewski said.
Philips hopes these changes will mean they’ll have working hydrants.
“We’re talking about people’s lives, and you want to feel good,” she said.
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