GREENBURGH, N.Y. — As a young defenseman in training camps for U.S. world junior teams, Kevin Shattenkirk has skated several times at the rink in Lake Placid, the site of the historic gold-medal upset by the American squad in the 1980 Winter Olympics.
“As a USA player, you obviously know the story. We were in our teens when ‘Miracle’ [the movie] came out,” the New Rochelle native said Sunday before the Blueshirts headed to the upstate village for a few days of practice and team-building activities. “It still kind of has that mystique to it. We stay at the training center, there’s a lot of history there.