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Wayne Coffey is one of the country's most acclaimed sports journalists, forging an alternate career route after his initial plan - replacing Mickey Mantle in the Yankee outfield - did not pan out. A former writer for the New York Daily News and the author of more than thirty books, including five New York Times bestsellers, he is a three-time nominee for the Pulitzer and been frequently honored by the Associated Press for his sports feature writing. Coffey co-authored Mariano Rivera's bestselling memoir, The Closer, R. A. Dickey's Wherever I Wind Up and Carli Lloyd's When Nobody Was Watching, and also worked with Urban Meyer on his leadership book, Above The Line. The Boys of Winter, Coffey's chronicle of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team that beat the Soviet Union in Lake Placid, is widely regarded as one of the best hockey books ever written.
Coffey's latest work, They Said It Couldn't Be Done: The '69 Mets, New York City and the Most Astounding Season in Baseball History, will be released next month.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2018

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This book reads like a companion piece to the movie "Miracle". As it happens, I had just seen Miracle a couple of times before I bought this book. Miracle is a great 'feel good' movie and you don't have to be a hockey fan to love it. But I think only hockey fans would enjoy this book.

I love hockey, so I gave the book 4 stars. I would have given it 2 stars if it was about a different sport. I enjoyed Mr. Coffey's writing style but I think his organization skills need work. The first part of the book was composed of 1 or 2 paragraph factoids about the game and the players. The great majority of the book was organized like a hockey game: period 1, intermission, period 2, intermission, period 3. This sounds like a clever idea, but it really wasn't. A large part of the period sections was merely a recitation of the plays. In other words, it was like listening to a broadcast of the game. Mr. Coffey wove human interest stories about the players' lives into the play by play, but still...

So a lot of the book wasn't actual writing, it was transcribing a broadcast.

As I said, I enjoyed the book but I don't recommend it to anyone except hockey fans.

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Beautifully written, with a lot of hockey knowledge.

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2021

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Beautifully written, this is a very rewarding read about the “boys” (young athletes) on the 1980 US Hockey Olympic team and their epic victory over the dominate and older Soviet team. The narrative creatively inserts each player’s bio into a summary of the game’s play-by-play. I’m not a hockey expert so many references literally skated (had to do it) over my head. It was a slower, educational read for me, and is probably more engaging for those with a solid understanding of hockey history and geography. There are a lot of cross-references. Still, the bullet points are universal: dreams, focus, hard work and sacrifice. It’s a feel-good, and a revealing portrait of amateur competition.

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Great Book-For those that love sports!

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2016

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Great book and that is from a guy that has never played hockey. This book fills in all the blanks that Miracle leaves out. It goes into depth about the members of the team, their upbringing and what made that team so magical. Highly recommend if you enjoy a good sports read.

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1/2 Stars - Great Potential - Poorly Told

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2012

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I was so excited to find this book on my recommendations. I downloaded it instantly and started reading immediately. While I LOVE Hockey, and Love Love Love the 1980 team, this is not what I expected.

The way the book is pieced together it is very choppy to read and a little confusing. The author takes you through the russian game piece by piece, but when he is focusing on Buzz, you will go back into his childhood and it is very rambling. Good information, not well placed. You will find out about the town and growing up, and the socio economic issues the town had, not in a smooth telling, they will talk about the town then talk about how many people were laid off in 2003 and then back to Buzz as a child. Very disjointed. Then the when done with Buzz it goes back the game and picks up another player.

Brooks is in here in chunks, and then back to game or player. This is one of my favorite stories, and I did like some insight from the Russian players; however, it was too difficult to get to the pertinent material. It felt like there was a lot of filler information that was not necessary or was so poorly placed it lost its importance in the jumble.

I gave it the rating I did just because I LOVE this team, I was 9 years old and watching the Olympics with my parents and God parents in Lake Tahoe. I did like the author pointed out that people remember exactly where they were and that is rare for something good, usually you remember that for major tragedies, like 9/11, The Challenger explosion etc.

If you are wild about this story and willing to wade through this to get information it is ok. If you are hoping for an easy enjoyable read I would pass.

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Great Story From One of Nation's Best Sportswriters

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2006

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Wayne Coffey is a wonderful sportswriter for the NY Daily News, so seeing his name on this book gave me every reason to believe I would like it. I was right.

A huge amount has been written and done about this team. There was a full-length movie, an outstanding HBO documentary and a made-for-TV movie (Karl Malden as Herb Brooks).

This book fills a lot of the gaps and gives a lot of insight into the individuals. I especially appreciated that Coffey interviewed many of the Russians, his sections on Tarasov and Tikhinov are fascinating.

Unlike Mr. Barat, I was able to follow the narrative of the book, it did not bounce around too much for me.

And while I would have preferred more coverage on the other games the team played, before and during the Olympics, that is a mild quibble.

The biggest gotcha in the book is when it talks about the game that the US played against the USSR two weeks before the Olympics. That game was won by the USSR 10-3 and it wasn't that close. Other sources said that both teams were trying 100%. Coffey believes that Brooks held back the US team a lot, not wanting to show his hand to them.

I rarely give 5 stars to a book, this one deserves them.

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A new look at a classic game!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 24, 2018

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After watching the movie countless times! I came across this book. It offers a more in depth look at both teams in the build up to the game and the players lives afterwards. Enjoyable read and still brings out the goosebumps at all the right times!

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2015

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A very well researched book about the USA olympic ice ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 15, 2014

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A very well researched book about the USA olympic ice hockey team and its triumph against the odds over the mighty Russian red machine.

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