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Dearborn Native Leads Team USA Upset of Canada

Here is one you can tell your friends about Monday morning. Perhaps the biggest Olympic upset in hockey since the Miracle on Ice was led by Dearborn native Brian Rafalski, who scored the first two American goals Sunday night to stun Canada, 5-3 and advance Team USA to the quarterfinals.

Rafalski, a Red Wings defenseman, also assisted on the fourth goal for Team USA. Ryan Kesler of Livonia closed out the America scoring with an empty-netter.

And of course, Ryan Miller of Michigan State University (Go State!) was the winning goalie.

Even better about this win is that it comes just one day short of the 30th anniversary of America’s greatest hockey victory, the win over the Soviet Union in Lake Placid.

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  • kevin pal

    It won’t have the historical significance of the 1980 win over the USSR (Does anybody remember the US’s upset win over Canada in the 1996 World Championships? I didn’t think so.), but last night’s game showed how a younger, more determined, more focused team of Americans could pull off the upset. And the old goat from Dearborn had a damn good game, too.

  • http://www.nooksurfer.com NookSurfer

    Awesome game!! Once again Miller came through when you needed him most.

  • Splashgordo

    Dearborn and Southfield Christian School (where Brian and I went to school) are proud!!

  • http://www.networkdearborn.com Dave Bowman

    Awesome win and cool to see Rafalski do so well!

  • Michael D. Albano

    It’s hard to find a prouder day and even than this for Michigan and the good old USA. Now if we can just get Rafalski to play for the Red Wings like he played for Team USA. Go Red Wings!!!