Last Sunday marked the 35th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice, as it's called here in the States. You probably know the basics: At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y., a team of U.S.

The Scandinavian nation should not have stood a chance against the Soviet juggernaut, but it had three formidable assets: the winter warfare prowess of the Finns; the brilliant flexible defense ...