Catching up with the 20 members of America's 1980 gold medal-winning men's hockey team and its coach, Herb Brooks:
BILL BAKER: Now an oral surgeon, Baker lives in Minnesota with his wife and three children.
NEAL BROTEN: After playing for five NHL teams over 17 seasons, including a 1995 Stanley Cup win with the New Jersey Devils, Broten stays involved in hockey doing occasional promotions work for the Minnesota Wild. He, his wife and their two daughters train, ride and show 35 quarterhorses.
HERB BROOKS: Coach of Team France in 1998 at Nagano and back again as head coach of the USA's 2002 men's team, Brooks has had NHL coaching stints with the New York Rangers, Minnesota North Stars, New Jersey Devils and Pittsburgh Penguins. He now scouts for the Penguins.
DAVE CHRISTIAN: Christian and his wife reside with two of their five children in Moorhead, Minn., where he is head coach of the North Dakota-based, USA Hockey-sanctioned Junior A Fargo-Moorhead Ice Sharks. The 1,009-game, five-team NHL vet also keeps a hand in the family-owned Christian Brothers Hockey Sticks business.
STEVE CHRISTOFF: After playing for three teams over five NHL seasons, Christoff remains a regular participant in benefit hockey games. The Minnesota native also pilots an Avro-85 jet for Meseba Airlines, a regional commercial operation.
JIM CRAIG: The starting goalie for Team USA in 1980 resides in North Easton, Mass., where he is a motivational speaker and an account manager for Valassis Communications Inc., a Michigan-game publisher of advertising materials. After a brief NHL career, the native New Englander also has acted in TV and commercials, and runs the Jim Craig Hockey School.
MIKE ERUZIONE: Team USA's captain is currently director of development athletics at his alma mater, Boston University. Also a successful motivational speaker and corporate endorser, he has worked as a TV commentator for both NHL and international hockey competition.
JOHN HARRINGTON: A member of the U.S. National Team in the 1981, '82 and '83 World Championships and the U.S.'s '84 Olympic team, Harrington is in his ninth season as head coach of the men's hockey team at St. John's (Minn.) University.
STEVE JANASZAK: With three NHL games to his credit, one for the former Minnesota North Stars and two with the old Colorado Rockies, Janaszak parlayed his Olympic backup goaltending duties, which included no games actually played, into mostly a brief, vagabond minor-league career. Married to a Lake Placid Olympic Village interpreter he met during the Games, he now is a bond salesman residing in the New York suburbs.
MARK JOHNSON: This 11-season, five-team NHL veteran has spent the past five seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he lives with his wife and four children.
ROB McCLANAHAN: After bouncing around with three NHL teams over five seasons, McClanahan has settled in the Minneapolis area, where he lives with his wife, two stepsons and daugter, and works as an investment broker for Piper Jaffray.
KEN MORROW: A member of four Stanley Cup-winning teams with the New York Islanders, Morrow went into coaching after his 10-season NHL career came to a close in 1989. Now director of pro scouting for the Islanders, he and his wife are parents of two daughters.
JACK O'CALLAHAN: President since 1991 of Beanpot Financial Services, a institutional brokerage company in Winnetka, Ill., this former Chicago Blackhawk and New Jersey Devil participates in corporate fundraising for the U.S. Olympic cause, is a volunteer youth hockey coach and is a board member of the Loyola Academy Rowing Association.
MARK PAVELICH: After playing all or parts of seven NHL seasons, most with the New York Rangers, and a two-season stint in Italy, the 1980 team's most-reclusive member has settled in the wilds of Minnesota, along the north shore of Lake Superior. A married father of one daughter, he is an avid fisherman, and is involved in home-building and land-development.
MIKE RAMSEY: This longtime Buffalo Sabres defenseman ended his 1,070-game NHL career in 1997, after stops in Pittsburgh and Detroit. The Minnesota native is currently an assistant coach with the Minnesota Wild.
BUZZ SCHNEIDER: Schneider and his wife have two sons and live in the Minneapolis area, where he sells real estate for commercial, restaurant and residential properties.
DAVE SILK: Employed by Putnam Investments, the seven-season, four-team NHL vet also is an adjunct professor teaching management classes at Boston University.
ERIC STROBEL: Vice President of Universal Capital and owner of AG Strobel, Inc., a Minneapolis construction company, Strobel and his wife have two daughters. He also coaches pee wee hockey in Apple Valley, Minn.
BOB SUTER: Suter runs both a skating facility and a junior hockey team in Madison, Wisc., where he also owns an area sporting goods store, Suter's Gold Medal Sports.
PHIL VERCHOTA: A banker in Willmar, Minn., Verchota captained the 1984 U.S. Olympic team and currently serves on USA Hockey's board of directors. He and his wife have a 7-year-old hockey-playing daughter.
MARK WELLS: Wells resides in his native Detroit area, where he is owner of Longs Lawn Care and Landscaping, Inc.
The dozen who did
Eight of the 20 1980 U.S. men's Olympic hockey team members never did play in an NHL game. Of the dozen who did, only five played in more than 500. Here's a look at the eight who made it:
Bill Baker ... Montreal, Colorado Rockies, St. Louis, New York Rangers ... 143 games in three seasons
Neal Broten ... Minnesota North Stars, Dallas, New Jersey, Los Angeles ... 1,099 games in 17 seasons
Steve Christoff ... Minnesota North Stars, Calgary, Los Angeles ... 248 games in five seasons
Dave Christian ... Winnipeg, Washington, Boston, St. Louis, Chicago ... 1,009 games in 15 seasons
Jim Craig ... Atlanta Flames, Boston, Minnesota North Stars ... 30 games in three seasons
Steve Janaszak ... Minnesota North Stars, Colorado Rockies ... three games in two seasons
Mark Johnson ... Pittsburgh, Minnesota North Stars, Hartford, St. Louis, New Jersey ... 669 games in 11 seasons
Jack O'Callahan ... Chicago, New Jersey ... 389 games in seven seasons
Ken Morrow ... New York Islanders ... 550 games in 10 seasons
Mark Pavelich ... New York Rangers, Minnesota North Stars, San Jose ... 355 games in seven seasons
Mike Ramsey ... Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Detroit ... 1,070 games in 18 seasons
Dave Silk ... New York Rangers, Boston, Detroit, Winnipeg ... 249 games in seven seasons
Sources include: Allstate Insurance, sponsor of a 1980 USA reunion game played earlier this month in Los Angeles