Eruzione said that he did not regret deciding not to play professional hockey, saying " after being a commentator and covering the NHL for a few years, I have no doubt I could play.

Mike Eruzione was the captain of the 1980 olympic team that beat Russia in the Miracle on Ice game, in which he scored the winning goal, allowing the U. S. team to go on to win the gold medal.

Michael " Ritz " " Rizzo " Eruzione (, ; born October 25, 1954 ) is an American former ice hockey player who was the captain of the 1980 Winter Olympics United States national team that defeated the Soviet Union in the famous " Miracle on Ice " game.

Michael Eruzione was born on October 25, 1954 to an Italian American family in Winthrop, Massachusetts.

After leaving Berwick, Eruzione attended Boston University.

Eruzione also played for Team USA at the 1975 and 1976 Ice Hockey World Championship tournaments.

After his second year in Toledo, Eruzione, who played forward, was named the captain of the 1980 Olympic hockey team, scoring the winning goal against the Soviets and helping the Americans win the gold medal against Finland.

Eruzione was the only player of the five on the US Olympic team not drafted by an NHL team.

" Eruzione then became a television broadcaster, grabbing the microphone at Rangers and New Jersey Devils games and for the NHL on USA Network and The NHL on FOX, and going on to comment at five Olympic Games, working for both ABC and CBS.

Eruzione returned to his alma mater of Boston University to be the assistant coach for the hockey team for three seasons, and where he currently works as Director of Special Outreach.

On January 19, 2007, Eruzione appeared on the new version of the game show I've Got a Secret.

In 2012, Eruzione appeared at the Republican National Convention, and gave a short speech in support of nominee Mitt Romney.

In the 1981 made-for-TV movie about the 1980 U. S. Hockey team called Miracle on Ice, Eruzione is portrayed by actor Andrew Stevens.

To prepare for the role, he trained with the team Mike Eruzione coached at the time.

Later Eruzione enters the game and scores to give the US a 4-3 lead.

Several colleges, like Boston University ( where O ' Callahan and his Miracle on Ice teammates Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig, and Dave Silk once played ) attempted to recruit him to play college hockey, but Mantenuto ultimately decided to play, albeit briefly, for the University of Maine.

In the final period, the Americans tied the game and captain Mike Eruzione scored with exactly 10 minutes to play in the contest to give the Americans a 4 – 3 lead.

One of the most famous Goaldiggers was Mike Eruzione, who played with the 1980 Miracle on Ice U. S. ice hockey team.

Sagan rebutted these charges, and further attacked Velikovsky's ideas in his PBS television series Cosmos, though not without reprimanding scientists who had attempted to suppress Velikovsky's ideas.

Harvey rebutted the personal charges made by Nashe in Pierce's supererogation, or a New Prayse of the Old Asse ( 1593 ).

Bowdoin rebutted the charges and claims made in Bernard's letters, and published a highly polemic pamphlet arguing for Bernard's removal that was sent to the colonial secretary, Lord Hillsborough.

Greenup's term in office was marred by accusations that he had participated in the Burr Conspiracy to align Kentucky with Spain prior to the former's separation from Virginia, but he vigorously and successfully rebutted these charges.

McLeish rebutted the charges against him, claiming that the issue was " a muddle, not a fiddle ".

The Society strongly rebutted these charges, and indeed organised strikes of its own ; this deeply strained its already poor relations with the government, and the Brotherhood

In 2012 he rebutted two longstanding rumors: one that he appeared as a soldier on a train in Biloxi Blues ( 1988 ), saying, " No. I don't know why that's on IMDb, but I never was in that ," and the other that he is related to dancer Lacey Schwimmer, saying, " No, not at all.

UCS rebutted the White House document by saying that Marburger's claims were unjustified.

A few days later, as he introduced my successor, Bill Keller, to the assembled staff, Arthur Sulzbergr, Jr. rebutted my comment by saying, ' There's no complacency here — never has been, never will be.

They rebutted the concerns over privacy, with a spokesman for the DfES saying ' we are conscious of the need to respect personal privacy '.

However, Max von Laue quickly rebutted those claims by saying that the inertia of electromagnetic energy was long known before Hasenöhrl, especially by the works of Henri Poincaré ( 1900 ) and Max Abraham ( 1902 ), while Hasenöhrl only used their results for his calculation on cavity radiation.

In debate with John Fitzgibbon, 1st Earl of Clare, Fitzgibbon rebutted one of Curran's arguments by saying " If that be the law, Mr. Curran, I shall burn all my law books.

South Carolina Athletic Director rebutted by saying, " There are no formal or informal guarantees at him ," and " It's always helpful to have potential succession in a staff.

This presumption may be rebutted however by proving that the ring was given on condition ( express or implied ) that it must be returned if the marriage did not take place, for whatever reason.

Having rebutted the principle of alternate possibilities, Frankfurt suggests that it be revised to take into account the fallacy of the notion that coercion precludes an agent from moral responsibility.

Van den Toorn complains, for example, that “ Fanned by an aversion for male sexuality, which it depicts as something brutal and contemptible, irrelevancies are being read into the music .” Van den Toorn's complaint was rebutted by musicologist Ruth Solie, but van den Toorn responded with a whole book on these issues.

This argument was rebutted by inquisitors and others who pointed out that only those persecuted for " righteousness ' sake " were to be blessed, something they did not think applied to the enemies of the church.

In the classroom and in writing, it often takes the form of explicit disputation: a topic drawn from the tradition is broached in the form of a question, opponents ' responses are given, a counterproposal is argued and opponent's arguments rebutted.

However, this story was rebutted by both Clapton and Baker, first by Clapton in a Times article from April 2006.

" Unity's sister, Deborah, rebutted by stating that the entourage that returned with Unity consisted of herself and their mother and although she doesn't remember them being searched upon return, that Unity " could not walk, talked with difficulty and was a changed personality, like one who had had a stroke ", and that she has detailed records from Professor Cairns, neurosurgeon at the Nuffield Hospital in Oxford, on her condition, including X-rays showing the bullet.

One was held in Edinburgh where Hughes stressed his human rights and Green friendly background ; another in Manchester, where Chris Huhne rebutted criticism from Sir Menzies Campbell that his call for a rise in petrol duty would harm people living in rural areas dependent on using their cars.

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In addition, the plaintiffs offered expert testimony from psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and sociologists -- none of which was rebutted by the defense — demonstrating that the inadequate educational facilities and curricula found in segregated schools were harmful to the mental health of African-American children.

Riccioli argued vigorously against the Copernican system, and even characterized certain arguments for terrestrial immobility as unanswerable, but he also rebutted some anti-Copernican arguments, invoking counterarguments from the Copernicans.

The PAP chose to highlight Ling's dismissal from the police force and the record of his election agent, but these were quickly rebutted by the SDP leadership.

Sloper's defence counsel rebutted by calling the Kensington housekeeper, Anne Hopson, who testified that Cibber received money from Sloper with full knowledge of his wife's affair.

The Court rebutted Congress's assertions as follows: ( 1 ) § 244 ( c )( 2 ) of the Immigration and Nationality Act is severable from the rest of the act pursuant to the express severability clause § 406.

In some cases, the presumption of death can sometimes be rebutted, according to Sentell, courts will consider evidence that the absent person was a fugitive from justice, had money troubles, had a bad relationship, or had no family ties or connection to a community as reasons not to presume death.

The rumor that Dee was in a Swedish National Youth Hockey team ( stemming from an interview on Motorhead's stagefright DVD ) has since been rebutted by Dee himself, claiming that " in the end of the 80's and a bit into the 90's I played for a team called Team Sweden in southern California " causing the rumor to arise.

Newton, who heard of this from Halley, rebutted Hooke's claim in letters to Halley, acknowledging only an occasion of reawakened interest.

" McCerry rebutted Ahenakew by stating that Jewish groups were not the primary reason Ahenakew was removed from the Order.