"Inside the Game" Podcast

Inside the Game, Craig Patrick, Comissioner 3 ICE, segment two

Season 2 Episode 99

We continue here on flexxCOACH's "Inside the Game" with Craig Patrick.

In this segment we discuss in depth the 1980 Olympic Hockey Team and what went into the success of the team with Herb Brooks. Craig talks of how Herb Brooks coached the team and was very prepared for how he coached the team. There was a mission for Herb, he had a plan from May 1979 when Craig was brought in as an assistant coach for the team and how he put that plan into action. They were prepared mentally and physical for the Pre Olympic tour as well the games themselves. Everything Herb did was part of bigger picture in what was to come. 

Craig even showed us his gold medal from the games. It is towards the end of the interview. 

We transition at the end of the interview with his time in the NHL and being the General Manager of the New York Rangers and the Pittsburgh Penguins and winning the Stanley Cup twice in Pittsburgh. 

It is a great segment on a very historic moment in the sport of hockey and how it changed the fortunes of the game in the United States.