February 22 is already the greatest day in American hockey history — can Team USA add to the legend?

Team USA women's hockey gold medalist Taylor Heise tells Fox News Digital she believed the men can replicate their success.

I never subscribed to astrology or numerology or anything like that because I always chalked it up to human nature and trying to make sense of a huge mess of information.

We just kind of decided over time that "7" was lucky and "13" was unlucky, and all kinds of other nonsense that really doesn't mean anything.

But when I found out that the highly anticipated Olympic gold medal clash between the United States and Canada was taking place on February 22, I almost fell out of my chair.

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Jim Craig celebrates Team USA's win over USSR on Feb. 22, 1980.  (Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

It's almost too perfect.

While that's not a date that stands out to a lot of people, it does for hockey fans. Specifically, American hockey fans.

It's the anniversary of the "Miracle on Ice."

We all know the story, and as the years go by, it starts to sound more and more like some kind of great American legend.

You had the Soviet Union, a juggernaut on the international stage, dominating the Olympics for nearly two decades.

At the time, the Olympics were for amateurs, and that classification only loosely applied to the Soviets. Names like Boris Mikhailov, Sergei Makarov, and Vladislav Tretiak would be NHL superstars if they played in another era.

But again, they were "amateurs."

As for the Americans, they put together a Herb Brooks-led team of actual amateurs from the collegiate ranks. They put aside grudges from their NCAA days, and overcame off-ice hardships in their personal life — like netminder Jim Craig, who was dealing with the loss of his