Best Feature Shot (Partially) in Colorado

The early sequences of Gavin O’Connor’s deft, exciting re-creation of a great moment in American sports history — the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team’s 1980 victory over the seemingly invincible Soviets — are set at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and in the rickety old Broadmoor Arena, where the blood feud between the University of Denver and Colorado College is so often renewed. In the film, we revisit the Springs as the driven U.S. coach Herb Brooks (authentically played by Kurt Russell) selects his team of lovable underdogs and tells the Olympic powers-that-be that their antique ideas about hockey (and losing) stink on ice. The film then moves on to Minnesota, Norway and Lake Placid, but Colorado gets first crack at the implacable Brooks.