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Member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, Ken Morrow, right, and co-author Allan Kreda pose at The Bookstore Plus in Lake Placid on June 19 after signing copies of their book \u201cMiracle Gold, Four Stanley Cups, and a Lifetime of Islanders Hockey.\u201d
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\tLAKE PLACID \u2014 There are only about 3,100 names engraved into the Stanley Cup, which has been around since 1893. Ken Morrow\u2019s name appears four times, the same number as Gordie Howe and Wayne Gretzky.<\/p>\n
\tHe\u2019s there for his four NHL championships with the New York Islanders \u2014 once for the Ilanders, one of the 12 engraving mistakes on the coveted trophy \u2014 from 1980 to 1983.<\/p>\n
\tBut in this village, he\u2019s more known for his role on the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, which won the famed \u201cMiracle on Ice\u201d game, before winning Olympic gold.<\/p>\n
\tOn June 19, Morrow was at The Bookstore Plus in Lake Placid signing copies of his recently published book, \u201cKen Morrow: Miracle Gold, Four Stanley Cups, and a Lifetime of Islanders Hockey,\u201d that he co-wrote with Allan Kreda.<\/p>\n
\tKreda said they\u2019ve done a couple of book signings at UBS Arena in Elmont, where the Islanders play, as well as at the NHL Shop in New York City. But his trip to Lake Placid was \u201cwonderful at every level,\u201d and a memorable one.<\/p>\n
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\tHaving been born and raised in Brooklyn, Kreda grew up a fan of the New York Rangers. Mostly because his older brother and father had season tickets in the 1970s.<\/p>\n
\tBut in his three-plus decades of covering hockey for various news outlets \u2014 including the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, The New York Times and The Hockey News \u2014 the Rangers\u2019 \u201cBattle of New York\u201d foes, the Islanders, have grown on him.<\/p>\n
\tKreda has covered the Islanders numerous times in his years of sports writing, and even spent time during the 2022-23 NHL season writing a piece for The Hockey News on the Islanders\u2019 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n
\tHe interviewed all 16 Islanders who won those four straight Stanley Cups during the \u201980s, including Morrow. And while his name doesn\u2019t shine as much as the likes of his teammates Mike Bossy, Denis Potvin, Bryan Trottier and Billy Smith, Morrow was pivotal to those teams, and even scored the most overtime playoff goals \u2014 three \u2014 of any Islander during that four-year run.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cHe, of course, being one of the key guys we talked about, some stories and we talked about the Olympics,\u201d Kreda said. \u201cOne thing led to another, and I just said, \u2018I really think there\u2019s a book about your life and career journey, what do you think?\u2019 And he said, \u2018Well, I don\u2019t know, I just was doing my job. We just happened to keep winning. I\u2019ve had great teammates and tremendous people around me my whole career, but if you think it\u2019s worth the book, we can talk some more.’\u201d<\/p>\n
\tKreda thought Morrow was the perfect person to co-author a book with due to his double nature of winning a gold medal and a Stanley Cup within three months of each other, and being part of those Isles teams.<\/p>\n
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\tWhile the book does focus on the 1980 Olympics and those years with the Islanders, it also dives into Morrow\u2019s family life, some of the earlier years before Lake Placid and even Herb Brooks. <\/p>\n
\tIt dives into many of the important games during the Islanders\u2019 winning runs and the legendary Olympic teams, along with some jokes and never-before-heard stories. Kreda said he reached out to nearly 50 people in Ken\u2019s life for this.<\/p>\n
\tFor him, having been a teenager through most of these events that he and Ken write about has been a bit of a dream for him.<\/p>\n
\tHe was just 14 years old when the U.S. pulled off one of the greatest sports upsets, beating the Soviet Union 4-3 in the \u201cMiracle on Ice\u201d game. He often wondered what it was like for the players after that win.<\/p>\n
\tBut while people bombarded Main Street in celebration following that game, Morrow and the rest of the team headed straight back to his dorm room. <\/p>\n
\t\u201cHe had no interest in going anywhere there were crowds, people or dealing with any celebration,\u201d Kreda said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t time for that yet, it was next game, next game, next game. That kind of perseverance, mindset and preparation of doing the right thing. Those types of stories kind of stuck with me. The same way he played through the knee injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThese little stories of what happened after such a large game made the book memorable to Kreda. But one story he remembers \u2014 or at least encapsulates Morrow\u2019s time with Islanders the best \u2014 came in 1983 during the final game of the Stanley Cup Finals. Morrow scored an empty net goal to seal the Islanders\u2019 fourth consecutive title.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cHe was enveloped into a group hug with Bob Nystrom, John Tonelli and Denis Potvin. Ken Morrow just kept saying, \u2018I love you, I love you guys,’\u201d Kreda said. \u201cAnd it says it all because that\u2019s how they felt about each other. It\u2019s such a close-knit team who went through so much and it had just cemented a fourth straight Stanley Cup, which is more incomprehensible 40 years later than it might\u2019ve been at the time. And here is Ken Morrow, the hero again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tMorrow always had a knack for coming up, but he\u2019s often been described as a man of few words. He\u2019s never really envisioned himself as a star.<\/p>\n
\tWhen asked about his book during the Miracle on Ice Fantasy Camp in May, Morrow told the Enterprise that it\u2019s something he\u2019d never thought he\u2019d ever do. <\/p>\n
\t\u201cBut it\u2019s been a real joy,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd, you know, it\u2019s reconnecting me with a lot of people that I hadn\u2019t talked to in a while. So it\u2019s been fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tKreda added that Morrow has enjoyed meeting new people and hearing their own stories of where they were when the Games happened or when the big goals were scored. <\/p>\n
\t\u201cHe\u2019s been a little surprised by the level of excitement of hearing his story,\u201d Kreda said. \u201cHe was such a hardworking, dedicated sort of persevering defenseman doing his job. He never riddled or thought, \u2018Oh wow, I\u2019m a star,\u2019 it\u2019s not about that. It\u2019s about working and doing and sharing the book with his family, friends, with his world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tWith the Olympics and the last Islanders win being more than 40 years ago, Kreda said they weren\u2019t sure what the reception would be. However, with the 2004 Disney movie, \u201cMiracle,\u201d they\u2019ve seen a bit of a different crowd than they were expecting. <\/p>\n
\t\u201c(There are) kids at signings, bringing Olympic photos for Ken to sign, and wanting to ask what about the Games,\u201d Kreda said. \u201cPeople at Islanders games, who are Olympic fans that can\u2019t wait to meet, college age or just out of college, have been amazing. It\u2019s endless.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tWhile Kreda has written several other books, he said he couldn\u2019t be happier with how this one turned out.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cIt\u2019s hit the right market of readers and his teammates have told me that they\u2019ve learned some things about Ken they didn\u2019t know,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s had a happy audience who has been reliving such glorious times that I feel grateful myself as a journalist to be able to help these players and people to help continue their legacy of winning and it just so happens to combine two amazing events in the \u201980s.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tKreda said it was a great experience signing books with Morrow at The Bookstore Plus in Lake Placid. He added that they were very grateful for the efforts of Marc and Sarah Galvin, Elisa McIntosh and everyone there.<\/p>\n
\tThe book can be at The Bookstore Plus in Lake Placid, or online at tinyurl.com\/z4artjk2.<\/p>\n
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\tLAKE PLACID \u2014 The 41st annual High Peaks Cyclery Mini Triathlon race series kicked off on Monday evening at the …<\/p>\n
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