Craig played a key role in one of the landmark moments in United States sports history, as the goalie for the United States in the Miracle on Ice, when the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the favored Soviet Olympic hockey team, which was led by veterans including greats Boris Mikhailov and Vladislav Tretiak.

2025年2月22日 · Janaszack (goalie) was voted the most valuable player after the University of Minnesota won the NCAA championship in 1979. He was selected as the backup goalie to Jim Craig in the 1980 Olympics...

James Michael Carey (born May 31, 1974) is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Washington Capitals, Boston Bruins, and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League (NHL). He won the Vezina Trophy for the NHL's best goaltender in 1996. Carey made his college hockey debut with the Wisconsin Badgers in 1992.

Jim Craig is an American ice hockey goaltender who was part of the U.S. hockey team that defeated the Soviet Union team in the so-called “Miracle on Ice” and went on to win the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York.

Before the Olympics, Jim was an All-American goalie at Boston University, leading his team to a NCAA national championship. After the ‘Miracle’ game, Jim went on to play professionally for three NHL teams, where he sustained a career-ending injury while playing for …

2020年2月22日 · While Jim Craig might have been a hero that night in Lake Placid, the Olympic tournament didn’t kick off an NHL career for the goalie. Instead, it started him down a different …

2023年3月6日 · In the 1980 Winter Olympics, American goaltender Jim Craig helped lead the U.S. hockey team to an improbable gold medal victory. As the starting goalie, Craig posted a shutout in the semifinal game against the Soviet Union and then …

Statistics and Records of Jim Craig, a hockey player and coach from North Easton, MA born May 31 1957 who was active from 1976 to 1984.

Craig was a star goalie at Boston University before he made the Olympic team, and he was one of the primary reasons the United States won the 1980 gold medal. After the final game, the television cameras caught him on the ice, with an American flag draped over his shoulders, plaintively looking into the stands, and asking, “Where’s my ...

Jim Craig is in studio! The Olympic gold medalist and hockey legend is with us to reflect on what might be the greatest game of all time: Miracle on Ice. ...more