USA Hockey 30 Years Later

I wrote about the 1980 miracle on ice last week. The U.S. team almost got gold again and they did in a somewhat familiar way -- chose a team rather a group of all-stars. In other words they did not fill the roster with the best individual players, but put a team together that could get more out of the whole than the sum of the parts. Read here from ESPN.com . . . it worked as they greatly outperformed expectations and came within a goal of taking the gold.

Often we hate working in teams, but here is an example of how they can work spectacularly when done right.