00:01This was the glue, so to speak.
00:03Our church.
00:05It symbolized not only what we did,
00:07but the progression of us coming together.
00:12This is the spot right here.
00:14Manuel Guerra in the Nets to the U.S.
00:18Guerra working for goal. Here it is.
00:21Changed my life.
00:27Yes.
00:29We are champions.
00:35The only thing I knew about the sled hockey team
00:39is that they sucked.
00:41Players were doing their own fundraising
00:43to buy their equipment, pay for ice time,
00:45all their travel.
00:46Everybody was volunteering their time.
00:48The program was in shambles.
00:50A horse barn to change,
00:53and that was our locker room.
00:55It was very close to a total collapse.
01:02What a goal by Rick Middleton.
01:07I got asked to coach a team that had never won a game.
01:10And then he said,
01:11you do know what sled hockey is, right?
01:13I have no clue.
01:18We were going to be the sixth seed out of six teams.
01:20We were actually behind an X,
01:22and we were only invited because we were the host team.
01:24It really built us up.
01:32Nobody's going to give us nothing out there.
01:34We're going to take it!
01:35We're going to take it out!
01:38From a team that had no expectations.
01:41Shoot and score!
01:43Now they're getting some respect,
01:45they're getting some notoriety.
01:49Oh my God.
01:50These guys came to play.
01:52It was just this tidal wave of destiny.
01:59Only three is still in the league.
02:01Three!
02:02One, two, three!
02:04USA! USA! USA!
02:06USA!
02:08If you have the ability and you have a dream,
02:11you can chase it and you can achieve it.
02:16We used to just be a bunch of disabled guys skating in circles.
02:20And then we became the best team in the world.
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