Wayne Coffey

Believe. They were the 1980 American Olympic Hockey Team, a blue leader led by a non-traditional coach who might have designed the greatest sports moment of the 20th century. Their "Ice Miracle" became a national fairy tale, but the real Cinderella story is even more convincing. This is a desired heritage, diligence, and local victory. This is a record of everyday heroes, they just want to make hockey fun. This is still unbelievable

He is an award-winning sports journalist in the New York Daily News and has written more than 30 books. He lives in the Hudson Valley area in New York.

"In 1980, the American hockey team was printed mythically on screen and screen for about 25 years, Wayne Coffee's" Winter Boys "was deeper than this. Like a man ... and so, this is a very good book. "- John Feinstein" Even if I listen to the heroic story of the US Olympic hockey team held at Lake Placid in 1980, I think. This is a fable, a fable, a wonderful drama Wayne Coffee once again tells stories, raises the necessary lumps in the necessary throat, and came to a bonfire to add new details to familiar pictures. Ted Williams writer Lee Montville

Silver anniversary is always a good time to look back and Wayne Coffee is doing things that have completed the current legendary hockey victory in his book "Winter Boy" in and after that. Coffey used the game game as a basic story, but as he progressed he woven all the biographies of the principal. This is a good way to catch up with everyone. Like the University of Wisconsin female coach Mark Johnson, some people are still playing hockey. Then Mike Eruzione basically relied on him to fight the Soviet victory by making an inspiring speech. The only person who did not speak to him died in a car accident in 2003, but still he was a coach Herb Brooks who had a good expression here.

Brooks is the most vivid character of "Winter Boys: Coaches, Dreams, and the Unknown Story of the 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team". The hidden theme of Wayne Coffey is that he will do the right coach to the right. . That team will need a responsible madman at any opportunity, not a good person, in Brooks, it found inspiration. His talent is to see that the American team attracts Russians with their own play style based on ice hockey control, not muscle, then that you need to brainwash the American players. And most of them are former university students. Without international experience, I think they are better than them. He did this through a spiritual game that can be done in tragedy, and Coffey said that Brooks was still remembered by the team until today (he died in August 2003) . . He admits that such great success is at the expense of isolation.