Team USA vs. Canada: American hockey finally has its bruising Olympic showdown

The Americans have spent a year obsessing over this matchup. Now, they will play to win their first men’s gold medal since 1980.

Mike Eruzione had his forever Olympic moment — now he hopes to make room for new American hockey legends

I’ve got people come up to me and start crying,” Eruzione told The Post on Saturday, one day before Team USA took on Canada, looking to bring home gold for the first time since the 1980 team he captained.

Overtimes, shootouts in Olympics hockey: How they work

Here's an explainer on how overtimes and shootouts work in Olympic hockey: If the teams are tied after 60 minutes in the preliminary round, a five-minute sudden-death overtime will be played at 3-on-3. Unlike the NHL, teams don't change ends for overtime.

3 lessons from the captain of the 1980 ‘Miracle on Ice’ Olympic hockey team

If you ask Eruzione, the 1980 team’s head coach, Herb Brooks, must have said the words, “play your game” 500,000 times during the Olympics. However, each time, the meaning of those words was drilled deeper and deeper into the players’ heads.