BOSTON — Great moments are born from great opportunity. And that’s what you have here tonight, boys. That’s what you’ve earned here tonight.
If you’re an American hockey fan – hell, even just a fan of the game – the words of Herb Brooks moments before the Miracle on Ice make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
If you’ve listened closely, Team USA players have sprinkled a few of those Herb-isms into press conferences and media interviews over these last two glorious weeks at 4Nations Face-Off. They are words known by heart by every American player. It was watched so frequently that the Miracle movie disc was literally stuck in the rear seat video player of the minivan that teenage Brock Faber drove…