The USA and Canada ice hockey teams clashed last night in one of the premier events of the Vancouver Olympics.

But it wasn’t the best thing I saw concerning the Olympics. That would be reserved for something that happened 30 years ago.

Before last night’s game, NBC did a lengthy piece on the 30th anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice.”

I know, it’s hard to believe three decades have gone by since a bunch of college kids stunned the world by beating the powerful Russian team at the Lake Placid games in 1980.

There are several things about that achievement that bear repeating.

Very few people actually saw it. If my memory serves me correct, the game was not broadcast live, at least not in the United States. It was live in Canada, but on tape delay in the U.S.

The game did not deliver the gold medal for USA. They still had to beat Finland, and they were behind going into the third period.

I was thinking about all of that last night when I went looking for the USA-Canada game.

And that was my problem. I couldn’t find it. At least not on NBC.

That’s because it wasn’t on NBC. It was on MSNBC.

Do you believe in miracles? Uh, not exactly.