Marisa’s Reviews > The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team > Status Update
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~ “Your people can build the world’s tallest buildings,” Tarasov once told his friend Lou Vairo, a USA Hockey executive who was a scout on the 1980 team and the Olympic coach in 1984. “You can make forty-nine different kinds of mayonnaise. You can teach dolphins to do the most complex tasks. Why can’t you teach your hockey players to pass the puck more than two meters?”
Me: ouch
— Jun 16, 2026 08:25AM
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Marisa
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~ “It was the last of the small games,” said Mike Moran, who spent a quarter-century as the press chief for the U.S. Olympic Committee. “We’ll never see a Games like that again. It was almost like elementary school compared with the way the Olympics are now.”
Me: that makes me sad
— Jun 16, 2026 08:31AM
Me: that makes me sad
Marisa
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The Olympic Village is now a federal prison!? Umm
— Jun 16, 2026 08:31AM
Marisa
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~ “Sometimes you can’t answer the why questions,” Mark Johnson said. “You just have to trust God and be faithful. You have to be thankful and try to lead your life in a way that people can look to it as an example.”
— Jun 16, 2026 08:30AM
Marisa
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I can't believe Mark Johnson tried to sell off his hockey gloves at a garage sale for $3
— Jun 16, 2026 08:29AM
Marisa
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I love that Buzz Schneider's son played him in the movie!
— Jun 16, 2026 08:28AM
Marisa
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~ There’s no Mason-Dixon line in Minnesota, but the differences between north and south Minnesota are as deep as any of the state’s 15,000-plus lakes.
Me: I can verify that
— Jun 16, 2026 08:28AM
Me: I can verify that
Marisa
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~ The plates were rented from a place in the Twin Cities, and the Iron Rangers who hosted the event honored their self-sufficient ways. They woke up early the next morning and washed all 1,000 plates by hand.
— Jun 16, 2026 08:27AM
Marisa
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~ When the U.S. team scored, they looked like kids at recess, running toward each other, exulting, a group hug waiting to happen. The Soviets had emotions; they just didn’t believe in displaying them.
— Jun 16, 2026 08:26AM
