Mike Eruzione

Jordan Greenway will become the first black ice hockey player to skate for Team USA at the Olympics, pictured here at the IIHF World Junior Championship on Dec. 28, 2016.

Another ‘Miracle on Ice?’ American unknowns to take on star-studded Russian team.

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Men’s Ice Hockey at this year’s Winter Olympics is going to look pretty different — gone are the stars. For the first time in 20 years, the NHL won’t be going on hiatus and allowing its players to represent their nations. And that has Team USA, as well as Team Canada and others, sending line-ups of largely unknowns.

Mike Eruzione, captain of the 1980 gold medal winning U.S. Olympic ice hockey team poses next to the jersey and uniform he wore when the U.S. defeated the Soviet Union in what is known as the "Miracle on Ice" at Heritage Auctions in New York City

Mike Eruzione remembers when US hockey knocked off the Soviets in the ‘Miracle on Ice’

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