During this year's Miracle on Ice Fantasy Camp, one player in particular stole the show - Stanley Rumbough.

“Well, it's always nice to be back here. Love hanging out with the guys. Especially my bud (John) Harrington,” Rumbough said.

But what made his performance at this camp even more special, even more unbelievable, is that Rumbough, a man of a certain age, is doing it against 20, 30, and even 40-year-olds.

“I was worried about you early in there. Didn’t you hear me? I was going, ‘…dang it,’ he's playing like a 75-year-old,” Rumbough’s bud and 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team member John Harrington joked.

And that's because he is. Rumbough actually just turned 76 a few weeks ago. And he was out there dominating.

“I think of myself as a fine bottle of wine. It only gets better with age. How's that for a quote?” Rumbaugh joked.

But it's also that age that helps Rumbough better understand just how important the 1980 Olympics were as 20 college students, so many of them in attendance at camp, lifted up an entire nation with one miraculous win.

“And you have to remember at the time that there was so much tension, it was the Cold War. And then there was, you know, the Soviet Union was the evil empire,” Rumbough added.

And that's why Rumbough and so many others are, with New York State already having pumped some $500 million into the Lake Placid Olympic venues, looking to put on that finishing touch with a statue outside Herb Brooks Arena that would honor it all.

“You're talking about a life-sized statue that depicts the 1980s team on the gold medal podium,” Rumbough said.

“We were stronger as a group than we were as the individual parts. That's what makes the idea of this statue of all together like that, because more than anything, that shows what our team was,” Harrington added.

“If that, you know, comes to fruition and we're all here celebrating that moment, it's going to be really special because then the story is going to go on for a long, long time,” Harrington’s teammate Mark Johnson added.

And while the hope is there's just a little bit more money the state can offer up as a finishing touch to all of this renovation, fundraising efforts are already underway through a nonprofit organization called Monument to a Miracle.