Orchestrating An Upset: The 1996 World Cup of Hockey

Orchestrating an Upset is relatively recent history, but it is one of the United State’s rare international wins in best-on-best play and it hasn’t gotten nearly the same treatment the Miracle has. How did they assemble a team to beat Canada, who had previously won 4/5 Canada Cup tournaments? The documentary itself is a fun look back at a tournament that had a ton of drama despite not getting much in the way of publicity, especially in the United States. The movie covers Team USA’s creation and all of the international background going into the World Cup. The US was 0-7 against Canada in previous Canada Cup tournaments and hadn’t beaten their northern rivals in 20 years. A first shift brawl in a round robin game against Canada foreshadowed how the Americans would play for the rest of the tournament.

Cast

Louis P. Lamoriello Self

James Hetfield Self / Narrator

Eric Lindros Self

Brett Hull Self

Ron Wilson Self

Theoren Fleury Self

Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick Self

Scott Stevens Self

Bill Guerin Self

Don Cherry Self

Mike Richter Self

Keith "Walt" Tkachuck Self

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