Word: pros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canadian hockey teams, with their scattering of N.H.L. pros, college players and European-league veterans, are scarcely amateur in the classic sense. But in Olympic play, even these hodgepodge squads are dinosaurs on ice. After the Americans' seventh-place finish and the Canadians' drubbing, 5-0, by the gold-bound Soviets, North American hockey officials were dismayed. Sighs Father David Bauer, patriarch of Team Canada: "If the American defense had only been better, it would have done so much for amateur hockey...
...Monday's Boston Globe, Dupont suggested that the "miracle" in Lake Placid would remain some kind of mystic beacon for succeeding U.S. Olympic Teams to fall short of. Dupont and others have hinted that it would be better if pros were brought in. Forget the upstart collegians. Bring in the guys who make a living playing hockey. Let them take on the Russians. Let them kick some...
Imagine, though, that the pros donned Olympic garb in 1980. Would the "miracle" have been as miraculous? Would it have been as much...
...would you deny the chance of a lifetime to some excellent college hockey players--like Harvard's Allen Bourbeau and Lane MacDonald--so that you could lease some pros for a couple of weeks, let them win the gold and then go back to their jobs...
...section came back with its own cheer. "Hey, Harvard, you may be in the Olympics, but we're in the pros." Guess Harvard forgot about Cornell's Joe Nieuwendyk, star rookie for the Calgary Flames...