participant_of eric strobel
The " Miracle on Ice " refers to a medal - round game during the men ' s ice hockey tournament at the ___MASK64___ in Lake Placid , New York , played between the hosting United States , and the defending gold medalists , the Soviet Union . A team ___MASK19___ includes any ___MASK19___ which involves two or more players working together towards a shared objective . A team ___MASK19___ is an activity in which individuals are organized into opposing teams which compete to win . Examples are basketball , volleyball , water polo , handball , lacrosse , cricket , baseball , and the various forms of football and hockey . Eric Martin Strobel ( born June 5 , 1958 in Rochester , Minnesota ) is a retired American ice hockey forward who was a member of the Miracle on Ice 1980 gold medal winning U . S . Olympic hockey team . The ___MASK64___ , officially known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games ( French : Les " XIIIes Jeux olympiques d ' hiver "), was a multi - sport event which was celebrated from February 13 , through February 24 , 1980 , in Lake Placid , New York , United States of America . This was the second time the Upstate New York village hosted the Games , after 1932 . The only other candidate city to bid for the Games was Vancouver - Garibaldi , British Columbia , Canada , which withdrew before the final vote . Ice hockey is a contact team ___MASK19___ played on ice , usually in a rink , in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent ' s net to score points . Ice hockey teams usually consist of six players each : one goaltender , and five players who skate up and down the ice trying to take the puck and score a goal against the opposing team .