I’m hearing glowing reviews of this book.
As a kid I watched Bobby Orr with my Dad.
One day I brought home a bad note from school. I waited until AFTER the hockey game to show Dad. haha
Some readers give it a poor rating online because they find it hard to follow, but that's a deliberate result of the book's layout. The author goes through almost a moment-by-moment review of the USA-USSR game sequentially, and then intersperses sections of varying lengths that are profiles of the players and coaches, a history of the months leading up to the game, etc. It's very well researched, and I learned quite a few things about the game and that group of players and coaches that I had never known before.