If you've ever been to a hockey game before (particularly a playoff contest), you know it's one of the most thrilling experiences in sports. So it's curious that hockey hasn't been grist for more movies . Obviously, "Slap Shot" is an inarguable sports movie classic, while "The Mighty Ducks" franchise might've done more to popularize the sport in the United States than the Edmonton Oilers' trade of Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings.

These are all significant drivers for the popularization of the greatest game on ice in America, but if I were to single out one seismic moment that shook up the country and turned them into puckheads, there's only one answer: the U.S. men's hockey team's shocking upset of the juggernaut Soviet Union team at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New Y

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