Orchestrating An Upset: The 1996 World Cup of Hockey (2016)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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

Director & Crew

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